Essentials of United States history . les rives de la Saint-Charles, où lui et ses hommes, tourmenté par le scorbut et dans la crainte constante des Indiens,*a passé le long hiver nordique. Lorsque, en juillet, re-Cartier s'est tourné vers la France, son rapport n'a pas telle que cela temptsettlers à émigrer vers la vallée du Saint-Laurent. 87. La fondation de Québec. - Guerres de Religion pendant un demi-siècle a empêché d'envoyer theFrench. outcolonists En 1608, cependant, l'année d'après d'thefounding,Jamestown Samuel de Champlain le sailedup withtwo Saint-laurent les navires. Son plus earnestdesires ont été, premièrement, à con-vert l'I

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Essentials of United States history . the banks of the St. Charles where he and his men, tormented by scurvy and in constant fear of the Indians, *spent the long northern winter. When, in July, Cartier re-turned to France, his report was not such as would temptsettlers to emigrate to the valley of the St. Lawrence. 87. The Founding of Quebec. — Religious wars for half a century prevented theFrench from sending outcolonists. In 1608, how-ever, the year after thefounding of Jamestown, Samuel de Champlain sailedup the St. Lawrence withtwo ships. His most earnestdesires were, first, to con-vert the Indians to theCatholic faith, and second, to establish the power ofHe built a fort where the rivernarrowed and the cliffs rose high on either side and calledthe place Quebec. Here he spent the winter with twenty-eight men, while his ships went back to France for recn-forcements and supplies. When the ships returned in thespring, there were only eight men at Quebec to give them awelcome. But the courage of the men was not daunted by. Samuel de Champlain.France in the New World. • To hide their weakness the French frequently heat against the sidesof the fort with stones and sticks so that the Indians would think that theywere engaged in vigorous labor. THE FRENCH COLONIES 81 the sufferings of the Canadian winter, and Champlain, as soonas possible, set out with a party of Indians to explore thewaterways of the St. Lawrence. In his first expe- Discoveriesdition he discovered Lake Champlain. Each year of Cham-he pushed farther and farther west until he reached P^^^°-Lake Huron. Champlain had a wonderful faculty of winningthe confidence and respect of the Indians, and thus, from thevery beginning, the French had little to fear from the natives.Quebec, however, grew slowly and after seventeen years ithad only fifty or sixty inhabitants, mostly traders and ad-venturers. 88. The Jesuits. — In 1625 the first company of priests, belonging to the Society of Jesus, arrived at Quebec. St

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