CHAPTER III. 

 PRO AND CON 



The rugged and wild height of land, dividing 

 the waters flowing southward into Lake Superior 

 from those which make their way northward into 

 Hudson Bay, forms a good vantage point whence, 

 before setting out on our journey to the Arctic 

 and the Pacific, we may survey the way we have 

 travelled, and note some of the influences which 

 were particularly prominent in the contact of 

 the Indian with the white man, as the latter 

 penetrated into the unknown regions of the 

 New World. 



The Pilgrim Fathers left England under the charter of 

 authority of a Charter granted by James I. date? NOV. 

 The knowledge of its contents was, perhaps con 

 siderately, withheld from them until they had 

 set out upon their voyage. In it the King said, 

 in part, &quot;that he had been given certainly to know, 

 that .within these late years there hath, by God s 

 visitation, reigned a wonderful plague, together 

 with many horrible slaughters and murders, 

 committed amongst the savages and brutish 

 people there heretofore inhabiting in a manner 

 to the utter destruction, devastation, and de 

 population, of that whole territory, so there is 

 not left for many leagues together, in a manner, 

 any that do claim or challenge any kind of in 

 terests therein.&quot; 



