The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 6 of 330
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INTRODUCTION
in 1630 --directed the attention of the
Spanish government to the vast region
between the Rio Grande and the Florida
peninsula; but no motive other than a
religious one called for its occupation, and
it was suffered to remain in the unchallenged
possession of the savages. It was
La Salle's mission, indirectly, to arouse the
Spaniards from their colonial lethargy,
while he determined that the supposed route
to the South Sea and the Far East was but
the great central highway of the American
Continent, opening an appropriate field for
a new French colonial empire.
The sword of the bigoted Spaniard and
the commercial enterprise of Elizabethan
courtier and sailor determined the fact that
the French must approach the interior by
way of the St. Lawrence. During the first
decade of the seventeenth century Champlain
established upon this river an uncertain
base for missionary and commercial
endeavor. From this vantage point he and
his Recollect companions pushed as far west
as Georgian Bay. By i634 Nicollet reached
Green Bay, a western estuary of Lake
Benavides "Memorial," MSS. Lenox Branch,
New York Public Library.
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/6/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.