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NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES
AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602,


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WORKS ISSUED BY

The Hakluyt Society.

NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

FIRST SERIES. NO. XXIII-MDCCCLIX

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[Illustration: Facsimile of MS.]


NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE WEST INDIES
AND MEXICO IN THE YEARS 1599-1602,

With Maps and illustrations.

by

SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN.

Translated from the Original and Unpublished Manuscript,
with a Biographical Notice and Notes by Alice Wilmere.

Edited by Norton Shaw.







Burt Franklin, Publisher
New York, New York

Published by
Burt Franklin
514 West 113th Street
New York 25, N.Y.

Originally Published by The Hakluyt Society
Reprinted by Permission

Printed in the U.S.A.

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THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., D.C.L., Corr. Mem.
Inst. Fr., Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. So. St. Petersburg, &c., &c.,
PRESIDENT.

THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.                   }
                                            }VICE-PRESIDENTS.
REAR-ADMIRAL C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B. }

RT. HON. LORD BROUGHTON.

BERIAH BOTFIELD, ESQ.

THE LORD ALFRED SPENCER CHURCHILL.

CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, ESQ., F.S.A.

RT. HON. SIR DAVID DUNDAS.

SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S.

JOHN FORSTER, ESQ.

LIEUT.-GEN. CHARLES RICHARD FOX.

R. W. GREY, ESQ., M.P.

EGERTON HARCOURT, ESQ.

JOHN WINTER JONES, ESQ., F.S.A.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE COUNT DE LAVRADIO.

RT. HON. ROBERT LOWE, M.P.

R. H. MAJOR, ESQ., F.S.A.

SIR HENRY RAWLINSON, K.C.B.

THE EARL OF SHEFFIELD.


CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, ESQ., HONORARY SECRETARY.

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INTRODUCTION.


The manuscript, of which the following is a translation, as literal as
the idioms of the two languages admit, is in the possession of Monsieur
Feret, the learned and extremely obliging librarian of the Public
Library at Dieppe. Of its originality and authenticity there can be no
doubt; the internal evidence of similarity in style, diction, and
orthography even, with the published account of Champlain's _Voyages
in New France_, would alone suffice to establish those points.[1]

      [1] Extract from "Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle
      France, avec le Journal Historique d'un Voyage fait par ordre du
      Roi dans l'Amerique Septentrionnale. Par le P. De Charlevoix, de
      la Compagnie de Jesus." Tome Premier, 12o., Paris, 1744, p. 172.
      "Le Commandeur de CHATTE, governeur de Dieppe, lui succeda, forma
      une Compagnie de Marchands de Rouen, avec lesquels plusieurs
      Personnes de condition entrerent en soci