Voyages of Samuel De Champlain Author:Samuel De Champlain Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: will be infpired with nothing fo ardently as the dejire to ferve you. Should our dejign fucceed, the glory of it will be due, after God, to your Majejly, who wil... more »l receive a thoufand benedictions from Heaven for fo many fouls faved by your injlru- mentality, and your name will be immortalized for carrying the glory and fceptre of the French as far to the Occident as your precurfors have extended it to the Orient, and over the entire habitable earth. This will augment liie quality of Most Christian belonging to you above all the kings of the earth, and flww that it is as much your due by merit as it is your own of right, it having been tranfmitted to you by your predecejfors, who acquired it by tJteir virtues; for you have been pleafed, in addition to fo many other important affairs, to give your attention to this one, fo ferioujly neglected hitherto, God's fpecial grace referving to your reign the publication of His go/pel, and the knowledge of His holy name to fo many tribes who had never heard of it. And fome day may God's grace lead them, as it does us, to pray to Him without ceajing to extend your empire, and to vouchfafe a thoufand bleffings to your Majejly. Sire, Your mojl humble, mojl faithful, and mojl obedient fervant andfubject, CHAMPLAIN. PREFACE. IS in the various affairs of the world each thing drives for its perfection and the prefervation of its being, fo on the other hand does man in- tereft himfelf in the different concerns of others on fome account, either for the public good, or to acquire, apart from the common intereft, praife and reputation with fome profit. Wherefore many have purfued this courfe, but as for myfelf I have made choice of the moft unpleafant and difficult one of the perilous navigation of the feas; with the purpofe, however, n...« less