Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Two Rare Tracts Relating to the State of New York, 1609-15: Viz Champlain's Expeditions to Northern and Western New York (1632)
After they had camped, they despatched three canoes with nine good men, as is their custom at all their encampments, to reconnoitre within two or three leagues, if they see anything. After which they retire. They depend the whole night on the explora tion of the van guard, which is a bad habit of theirs. For sometimes their enemies surprize them asleep, and kill them without having an opportunity of recovering their feet to defend themselves.
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