CHALEUR, BAY OF, name how originating, [54].
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE, his birth, [104]; takes part in the Religious Wars in France, [104]; sails to the West Indies, [104]; suggests a Panama Canal, [105]; sails for Canada, [105]; conceives a plan of colonization, [105]; makes a settlement at mouth of St. Croix River, [107]; cruel winter, [108]; visits and names Mt. Desert, [108]; explores New England coast, [108]; welcomed by natives in Plymouth Harbor, [109]; trouble with Indians at Nausett, [110]; transfers settlement to Port Royal, [110]; second voyage to New France, [119]; seeks sea-route to China, [119]; explores the St. Lawrence, [120]; seeks to establish stronghold on the inland waters, [120]; eager to promote conversion of the Indians, [120]; overcomes resistance of Basques to fur-trade monopoly, [123]; quells mutiny of his men, [124]; great suffering in first winter at Quebec, [124]; goes with war-party of Algonquins into Iroquois country, [125]; hostile encounter on Lake Champlain, [128]; disastrous results of his success, [130]; his second fight with Iroquois, [131]; founds Montreal, [133]; second raid into Iroquois country, [133], names Lake Huron, [134]; Iroquois palisaded town, [136]; his unsuccessful attack on, [137]; wounded, [138]; lost in the woods, [140]; returns to Quebec, [142]; a prisoner at London, [143]; dies, [143].
CHARLEVOIX, FATHER, sent out to explore route to Pacific, [314].
CHATHAM HARBOR, scene of Champlain's fight with Indians, [111].
CHICAGO, La Salle near the site of, [236].
CHICKASAWS, a branch of the Maskoki family, [181]; hostile to the French, [253], note.
CHICORA, native name of coast region of South Carolina, [69].
CHIEFS, INDIAN, how chosen, [34].
CHIPPEWAYS, an Algonquin tribe, [7].
CHOCTAWS, a Maskoki tribe, [9], who sided with the French, [253], note.