ov, VOYAGE DE SAMVEL CHAMPLAIN, DE BROVAGE, fait en la France nouuelle, CONTENANT Les mœurs, façon de viure, mariages, guerres, & habitations des Sauuages de Canadas. De la descouuerte de plus de quatre cens cinquante lieuës dans le païs des Sauuages. Quels peuples y habitent, des animaux qui s'y trouuent, des riuieres, lacs, isles & terres, & quels arbres & fruicts elles produisent. De la coste d'Arcadie, des terres que l'on y a descouuertes, & de plusieurs mines qui y sont, selon le rapport des Sauuages. A PARIS, Chez CLAVDE DE MONSTR'ŒIL, tenant sa boutique en la Cour du Palais, au nom de Iesus. AVEC PRIVILEGE DV ROY. OF SAVAGES, OR VOYAGE OF SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN OF BROUAGE, made to New France, in the year one thousand six hundred and three: CONTAINING The customs, manner of life, marriages, warfare, and system of government of the savages of Canada. The discovery of more than four hundred and fifty leagues in the territory of the savages: what peoples dwell there; of the animals found there; of the rivers, lakes, islands, and varieties of soil, and what trees and fruits these produce. Description of the coast of Acadia, of the lands discovered there, and of several mines to be found there according to the report of the savages. PARIS: At CLAUDE DE MONSTR'ŒIL'S, whose shop is in the Court of the Palace, at the sign of Jesus. WITH THE KING'S LICENCE. P EXTRAICT DV PRIVILEGE AR Priuilege du Roy donné à Paris le 15. de Nouembre, 1603. signé par tel Imprimeur que bon luy semblera vn liure par luy composé, intitulé, Des Sauuages, ou, Voyage du Sieur de Champlain, fait en l'an 1603, & sont faictes deffences à tous Libraires & Imprimeurs de ce Royaume, de n'imprimer, vendre, & distribuer ledit liure, si ce n'est du consentement de celuy qu'il aura nommé & esleu, à peine de cinquante escus d'amende, de confiscation, & de tous despens, ainsi qu'il est plus amplement contenu audit Priuilege. Ledit Sieur de Champlain, suiuant sondit Priuilege, a esleu & permis à Claude de Monstr'oeil, Libraire en l'Vniuersité de Paris, d'imprimer le susdict liure, & luy a cedé & transporté sondit Priuilege, sans que nul autre le puisse imprimer ou faire imprimer, vendre & distribuer, durant le temps de cinq annees, sinon du consentement dudit Monstr'œil, sur les peines contenuës audit Priuilege. EXTRACT FROM THE LICENCE B Y licence of the King given at Paris, November 15, 1603, signed Brigard. The Sieur de Champlain is allowed to have printed by such printer as shall seem good to him a book written by him entitled Of Savages, or, Voyage of the Sieur de Champlain made in the year 1603, and all booksellers and printers in this kingdom are forbidden to print, sell, and distribute the said book, except with the consent of him whom he shall have appointed and chosen, under penalty of a fine of fifty crowns, of confiscation, and of all costs, as is more fully contained in the said licence. The said Sieur de Champlain, in accordance with his said licence, has chosen and allowed Claude de Monstr'œil, bookseller to the University of Paris, to print the book above-named, and has assigned and transferred to him his said licence, so that no other person may print it or have it printed, sell and distribute it during the period of five years, except with the consent of the said Monstr'œil, under the penalties contained in the said licence. A TRES-NOBLE, HAVT ET PVISSANT SEIGNEVR, MESSIRE CHARLES DE MONTMORENCY, Cheualier des Ordres du Roy, Seigneur d'Ampuille, & de Meru, Comte de Segōdigny, Vicomte de Meleun, Baron de Chasteauneuf, & de Gonnort, Admiral de France & de Bretagne. M ́ONSEIGNEVR,—-Bien que plusieurs ayet escript quelque chose du païs de Canadas, ie n'ay voulu pourtant m'arrester à leur dire, ay expressément esté sur les lieux pour pouuoir rendre fidelle tesmoignage de la verité, laquelle vous verrez (s'il vous plaist) au petit discours que ie vous addresse, lequel ie vous supplie d'auoir pour aggreable, & ce faisant, ie prieray Dieu, Monseigneur, pour vostre grandeur & prosperité, & demeureray toute ma vie,-Vostre tres-humble & S. CHAMPLAIN. obeïssant seruiteur To the most noble, high and mighty LORD CHARLES DE MONTMORENCY, Chevalier of the King's Orders, Lord of Damville and Meru, Count of Secondigny, Viscount of Melun, Baron of Châteauneuf and Gonnort, Admiral of France and Brittany. M Y LORD,—Although many have written somewhat concerning the country of Canada, I have however not been disposed to abide by their descriptions, but have gone to the place on purpose to be able to give faithful testimony of the truth which you shall read (if it please you) in the brief account which I give you, and which I beg you graciously to accept; and so doing I shall pray God, My Lord, for your greatness and prosperity, and shall remain all my life-Your most humble and obedient S. CHAMPLAIN. servant 1 Charles, Duc de Damville, or Dampville, was a younger brother of Henri, Duc de Montmorency, Constable of France, who died in 1614. He was long known as M. de Meru, and took part like others of his family in the civil and religious wars of the sixteenth century. He was created Admiral of France and Brittany on January 21, 1596, and his barony of Damville was erected into a duchy in 1610. He died in 1612. |