HISTORY or VERMONT. 2^t 



CHAPTER IX. 



First Settlements and Wars with tne 

 Indians. Earliest accounts of the Northern 

 Indians. Discoveries and settlements in their 

 eountry by the French. Origin and progress 

 of JVar betxveen the natives and the Europe- 

 ans. Influence of the Priests. French Ex- ; 

 peditions. Proceedings of the Governor of 

 Newyork. Destruction of Montreal by the 

 Iroquois e. From the year 1535 ^o 1689. 



SUCH were the men who were spread 

 over the northern parts of America in the fif- 

 teenth century. It does not appear that any 

 other men but the Indians had ever been in the 

 country, previous to that time. On October 

 the 12th, 1492, by astonishing efforts of genius 

 and perseverance, Columbus, discovered the 

 western hei#isphere, at the island of Guanahana* 

 Among all his discoveries the most importj^it, 

 was that of a new race of men ; of men in their 

 appearance, manners, habits, and customs, very 

 different from the inhabitants of the eastern 

 hemisphere. Influenced by the spirit of curi- 

 osity, enterprize, avai'ice, and ambition, the 

 subjects of the Spanish monarchy embarked in 

 great numbers to the southern parts of Ameri- 

 ca ; visited the natives, subdued the accessable 

 parts of their country, and planted them with 

 the men of Europe. These attempts and meas- 

 ures every where produced the same effects, 

 bloody and barbarous wars, between the men of 

 '^he twp continents j uow for the first time, iiif 



