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the actors in this little drama played their parts on the big stage of a new continent two hundred years ago. despots sat upon the thrones of france and england, and their representatives on the hudson and the st. lawrence were despots too, with greater opportunity and to better ends. in canada, frontenac quarreled with his intendant and his council, set a stern hand upon the church when she crossed with his purposes, cajoled, treated with, and fought the indians by turn, and cherished a running quarrel with the english governor of new york. they were striving for the friendship of the iroquois on the one hand, and for the trade of the great west on the other. the french, under such men as la salle, had pushed their trading posts westward to the great lakes and beyond the missouri, and north to the shores of hudson’s bay. they traded and fought and revelled, hot with the spirit of adventure, the best of pioneers and the worst of colonists. tardily, upon their trail, came the english and the dutch, slow to acquire but strong to hold; not so rash in adventure, nor so adroit in intrigue, as fond of fighting, but with less of the gift of the woods, and much more the faculty for government. there was little interchange of friendliness and trade between the rival colonists; and frenchmen were as rare on manhattan island as englishmen on the heights of quebec—except as prisoners.

g. p.

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