Author: Marie Emilie Gilchrist

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780484455633

Excerpt from Story of the Great Lakes Ess than fifty years after Columbus discovered America, Frenchmen, also seeking a route to China, began exploring the Saint Lawrence River. Indians told them there were great seas beyond. So there were, and regions richer than all the Indies, but no ancient cities with paved streets, no courtiers and schol ars. On the lonely shores of Lake Michigan young Jean Nico let donned a gorgeous Chinese silk robe to approach the Great Khan, but only Winnebago Indians greeted him. French missionaries were the first whites to come and live among the hostile savages. In the harsh northern wilderness Champlain built the fort of Quebec as a way-station between France and China. The French did not know it, but they themselves were bringing civilization to a country whose men were few and savage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.