Identifier: newenglandhumani00john (find matches)
Title: New England; a human interest geographical reader
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New England -- History
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A Lake Champlain ferry-boat Lake Champlain X AKE Champlain was discovered in 1609 by theJ—^ great French explorer whose name it bears. Hecame thither from the Kttle settlement of Quebec,which he had started the year previous. His mainobject was to find a way to China. A war party of the 293 294 New England Canadian Indians went with him, and he had agreedto help them in attacking their enemies, the Iroquois.They went up the Richelieu River and entered thelake about the middle of the summer in twenty-fourcanoes. There were two other Frenchmen besidesChamplain, and sixty warriors. Some of the Indiansspent a part of each day on shore hunting in order tosupply the expedition with food. To be sure, they hada provision of parched maize pounded into meal, butthey saved this for use when they should be so closeto the enemy that hunting would be impossible. Late
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Sunset near Colchester Point in the day the party would land, draw up their canoes,and range them closely side by side. Rude, bark-covered sheds were then made, dry wood was gathered Lake Champlain 295 for the fires, and trees were felled with which to forma defensive barricade on the landward side of thecanoes and shelters. Champlain went on amid the islands and broadreaches of water to the more open portion whence hecould see the forested ridges of the Green Mountainsfar off in the east, while on the western horizon loomedthe Adirondacks. At the southern end of the lakethe expedition encountered a party of Iroquois, andfought them victoriously. That satisfied Champlainsallies, and the party paddled back to Canada. The Indians name for the Lake meant The Gateof the Country, and this very well described it in thedays w^hen w^aterways were the chief thoroughfares.Canoes could go from it to the St. Lawrence, or south-erly to either the Hudson or the Connecticut, with onlyshort portages.

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