The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose, for he is never left alone, with the repletion of incessant and inevitable feasts.

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the…

His [Champlain's] books mark the man,-all for his theme and his purpose, nothing for himself. Crude in style, full of the superficial errors of carelessness an…

Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the ret…

O! what's a table richly spread Without a woman at its head!

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgeable in the fields of plumbing and elec…

Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir, Albeit to see you I'm unglad.