Chapter XXX: Part I: Discovery and Exploration, 1615–1700

This period is taken up in Parkman’s _Pioneers of France in the New World_, _The Jesuits in North America_, _La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West_, and _Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV._ The seventy-three volumes of _Jesuit Relations and Allied Volumes_, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, are the source books for accounts of the Jesuits. A modern book which covers this period is C. W. Colby’s _Canadian Types of the Old Régime, 1608–1698_. E. B. O’Callaghan’s _Documentary History of the State of New York_ (4 vols.), 1849, and L. H. Morgan’s _League of the Iroquois_ (2 vols.), 1901, give good accounts of the Indians, while the former has reprints of valuable maps and documents.

The original accounts of the voyages of the explorers are as follows: _Voyages of Samuel de Champlain_, translated by C. P. Otis, and edited by E. F. Slafter (3 vols.) (a handy one-volume edition is that of W. L. Grant, 1907); _Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavelier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681_, translated by M. B. Anderson; and Louis Hennepin’s _A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America_ (2 vols.), and Lahontan’s _New Voyages to North America_, both reprinted and edited by R. G. Thwaites. C. W. Butterfield has written a _History of Brulé’s Discoveries and Explorations_, 1610–1626. The story of the pageant of Saint Lusson comes to us from his _Procès-Verbal_ in the _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, xi, 26, and in Father Claude Dablon’s account in the _Jesuit Relations_, lv, 105–115.