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The Makers of Canada: Champlain
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Publisher: Larina
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
CHAMPLAIN'S FIRST VOYAGE TO AMERICA
S
amuel Champlain, the issue of the marriage of Antoine Champlain and
Marguerite Le Roy, was born at Brouage, now Hiers Brouage, a small
village in the province of Saintonge, France, in the year 1570, or according to
the Biographie Saintongeoise in 1567. His parents belonged to the Catholic
religion, as their first names would seem to indicate.
When quite young Samuel Champlainwas entrusted to the care of the parish
priest, who imparted to him the elements of education and instilled his mind
with religious principles. His youth appears to have glided quietly away,
spent for the most part with his family, and in assisting his father, who was
a mariner, in his wanderings upon the sea. The knowledge thus obtained
was of great service to him, for after a while he became not only conver-
sant with the life of a mariner, but also with the science of geography and
of astronomy. When Samuel Champlain was about twenty years of age, he
tendered his services to Marshal d'Aumont, one of the chief commanders of
the Catholic army in its expedition against the Huguenots.
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When the League had done its work and the army was disbanded in 1598,
Champlain returned to Brouage, and sought a favourable opportunity to
advance his fortune in a manner more agreeable, if possible, to his tastes,
and more compatible with his abilities. In the meantime Champlain did not
remain idle, for he resolved to find the means of making a voyage to Spain
in order to acquire and cultivate acquaintance, and make a true report to
His Majesty (Henry IV) of the particularities which could not be known
to any Frenchmen, for the reason that they have not free access there. He
left Blavet at the beginning of the month of August, and ten days after he
arrived near Cape Finisterre. Having remained for six days at the Isle of Bay-
ona, in Galicia, he proceeded towards San Lucar de Barameda, which is at
the mouth of the river Seville, where he remained for three months. During
this time he went to Seville and made surveys of the place. While Champlain
was at Seville, a patache, or advice boat, arrived from Porto Rico bearing a
communication addressed to the king of Spain, informing him that a por-
tion of the English army had put out to sea with the intention of attacking
Porto Rico.
The king fitted out twenty ships to oppose the English, one of which, the
Saint Julien, was commanded by Provencal, Champlain's uncle. Champlain
proposed to join the expedition under his uncle, but Provencal was ordered
elsewhere, and General Soubriago offered the command of the Saint Julien
to Champlain, which he gladly accepted.
The armada set sail in the beginning of January, 1599, and within six days,
favoured by a fresh breeze, the vessels sighted the Canary Islands. Two months
and six days later the armada drew near to the island called La Desirade,
which is the first island approached in this passage to the Indies. The ships
anchored for the first time at Nacou, which is one of the finest ports of the
Guadeloupe. After having passed Marguerite Island and the Virgins, Cham-
plain proceeded to San Juan de Porto Rico, [1] where he found that both the
town and the castle or fortress had been abandoned, and that the merchants
had either made their escape or had been taken prisoners. The English
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