“Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen.”

Pt. II, Ch. 4 Lescarbot and Champlain
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

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