Port Royal was a quadrangle of wooden buildings, enclosing a spacious court. This was Port Royal's first winter.Our special project presenting
Parkman Vol I, Part II, Chapter 4
Champlain's most conspicuous merit lies in the light that he threw into the dark places of American geography, and the order that he brought out of
Parkman Vol. 1 Part II, Chapter 3
From the Spanish settlements northward to the pole, there was no domestic hearth, no lodgment of civilized men, save one weak band of Frenchmen,
Samuel Champlain’s Early Life
Two small, quaint vessels, not larger than the fishing-craft of Gloucester and Marblehead, -- one was of twelve, the other of fifteen tons, -- held