Excerpt from The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War Heavy price. French and the Indians, save for one ep-tion, had been on terms of amity from he beginning. The reason for this was that he French had treated the Indians with tudied kindness. The one exception was Iroquois League or Six Nations. Cham in the first years Of his residence at c, had joined the Algonquins and in an attack on them', which they ver forgot; and, in spite of the noble efforts vfrench missionaries and a lavish bestowal gifts, the Iroquois thorn remained in the e of New France. But with the other an tribes the French worked hand in with the Cross and the priest ever advance -oi the trader's pack. French issionaries were the first white men to settle the populous Huron country near Lake mcoe. A missionary was the first European a glimpse of Georgian Bay, and a ary was probably the first Of the French race to launch his canoe on the lordly Mississippi. As a father the priest watched. 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.