Excerpt from Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791, Vol. 37: The Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, With English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps, Facsimiles; Lower Canada, Abenakis: 1651-1652 After a fortnight's halt, in which the travelers three Frenchmen, and forty Indians - construct canoes for the next stage Of the journey, they resume their way, and spend sixteen days in paddling over various rivers and many lakes, which had to be reached by roads the mere remembrance Of which fills me with horror. Often, they must portage their canoes and baggage for considerable distances, without eating any food from morning until night. 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.