7-80; his expedition with the Algonquins against the
Iroquois, 87-96, 101-2; his marriage, 117-18; is grossly deceived by
Nicolas Vignau, 98-104; wounded in expedition with the Hurons against
the Onondagas, 104-12; winters with the Hurons, 112-15, 146, 148-50;
his work as king's lieutenant in Quebec, 116-17, 119, 134; captured and
taken to London, 124-6, 127; his reception on his return to Quebec,
130-1; his last years and death, 133-6; his writings and character,
84-5, 137-51, 152-3; a comparison with Lescarbot, 55-7, 140-3; his
patriotism, 12, 62, 78, 84; his strong geographical instinct, 9-10, 20,
26-7, 29, 55, 139-40, 148; his ambition to discover a westerly route to
the East, 26, 62, 69, 84, 97, 103; his explorations, 21, 30, 35-6,
38-40, 41, 44, 47-9, 84-6, 96, 99-101, 105-8.

Champlain, Madame, 117-18.

Champlain's Company, its charter, 74-5; its treatment of Louis Hebert
and failure to encourage colonization, 76-8; deprived of its monopoly,
79.

Chastes, Aymar de, 24; sends Champlain on his first voyage to the St
Lawrence, 11-12, 16, 19, 20-1.

Chauvin, Pierre, secures monopoly of the fur trade in the St Lawrence,
16, 18-19, 62.

Coligny, Admiral de, his interest in New France, 14.

Colombo, Don Francisco, and Champlain, 8.

Company of One Hundred Associates, founding of the, 122-3, 129;
disaster befalls it, 124, 125.

Conde, Prince de, viceroy of Canada, 73-4, 75, 78.

Duval, Jean, his plot to kill Champlain, 64; suffers death, 65.

France, and the Wars of the League, 6-8; her colonization policy,
10-11, 15, 17, 18, 25, 28, 61-2, 117, 121, 132; and trading monopolies
in New France, 19 and note, 26-7, 56-57, 79, 80; her magnificent
opportunity of colonial expansion, 31-3; the Huguenot revolt at La
Rochelle, 123-4; war with Britain, 124-6; her rivalry with the House of
Hapsburg, 121, 128 and note; her colonial policy retarded by her
ambitious foreign policy, 127-9.

Georgian Bay, Champlain at, 105-6.

Gosnold, Bartholomew, an English navigator, 13, 16.

Great Britain, her colonization policy, 14-15; founds a colony in
America, 16-17, 33, 82; her capture of New France, 124-7.

Hebert, Louis, in Acadia, 28, 29; scurvily treated by Champlain's
Company, 76-7; his farm in Quebec, 67, 80-1.

Henry IV, 7, 8; his interest in colonial expansion, 10-11, 17, 18, 24,
25, 60, 121; assassinated, 71.

Holland, her interest in America, 14-16, 17.

Hudson, Henry, explorer, 17, 66, 95 n.

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