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est marlis and efTusIons of joy, as beings of a 

 superior order, from whose benevolence and 

 power they expected to receive uncommoii 

 benefits and advantages. Nor was it till the^ 

 Europeans began their enterprizes of" injustice 

 and violence that the natives had any fear or 

 suspicion, or made any preparations either for 

 defence or hostility,* 



The colony attempted by Cartier having 

 failed, no further attempt was made either to. 

 explore, or to make any settlements in the in- 

 terior parts of Canada, till the year 1603. That 

 year a voyage was undertaken by Samuei. 

 CHAMPLAiN,a man of a noble family in France, 

 He sailed up the river St. Lawrence as for as 

 Cartier had proceeded in 1535, and visited the 

 places which that celebrated navigator had de- 

 scribed. Passing the isle of Orleans he came 

 to anchor at a place called Quebec, which in the 

 lano-uasre of the natives denoted a strait. Cham- 

 plain remarked that this place might be ap- 

 proached by the largest vessels, that it was sur- 

 rounded by water on three of its sides, had a 

 situation elevated and commanding ; and that 

 with a little labor it might be made a place of 

 gi-cat strength, and was in every view a fit place 

 to erect a fort, and begin a settlement. He 

 then proceeded up the river to Hochelaga or< 

 J«>Iontreal, and made many inquiries of the na-» 

 tives respecting t'lcir country, its rivers, lakes, 

 productions, and inhabitants. W'^ithout fear or 

 suspicion, and with the most artless simplicity, 

 ihe Indians informed him that there was a com- 



• Hakluyt Vol. 3, g. aol— 209. American Biography Vol. I, page, 

 ijS— 1S4. 



