We Were Now, As I Before Mentioned,

Humanity, Morality, Decency, Might Be Forgotten, But Codfish Must Still Be Had For The Use Of The Faithful In Lent And On Fast Days.

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 Fiercest, Boldest, Most Politic, And Most Ambitious Savages To Whom The American Forest Has Ever Given Birth.

We Were Now Arrived At The Close Of Our Solitary Journeyings Along The St. Joseph's Trail.

When America Was First Made Known To Europe, The Part Assumed By France On The Borders Of That New World Was Peculiar, And Is Little Recognized. While The Spaniard Roamed Sea And Land, Burning For Achievement, Red-hot With Bigotry And Avarice, And While England, With Soberer Steps And A Less Dazzling Result, Followed In The Path Of Discovery And Gold-hunting, It Was From France That Those Barbarous Shores First Learned To Serve The Ends Of Peaceful Commercial Industry.

Faithfulness To The Truth Of History Involves Far More Than A Research, However Patient And Scrupulous, Into Special Facts. Such Facts May Be Detailed With The Most Minute Exactness, And Yet The Narrative, Taken As A Whole, May Be Unmeaning Or Untrue. The Narrator Must Seek To Imbue Himself With The Life And Spirit Of The Time. He Must Study Events In Their Bearings Near And Remote; In The Character, Habits, And Manners Of Those Who Took Part In Them. He Must Himself Be, As It Were, A Sharer Or A Spectator Of The Action He Describes.