Produced by Karl Hagen, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the online Distributed Proofing team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. The Publications of the Prince Society Established May 25th, 1858. RADISSON'S VOYAGES. VOYAGES OF PETER ESPRIT RADISSON, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRAVELS AND EXPERIENCES AMONG THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, FROM 1652 TO 1684. TRANSCRIBED FROM ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM. WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND AN INTRODUCTION, BY GIDEON D. SCULL, LONDON, ENGLAND. PREFACE. It may be regarded as a fortunate circumstance that we are able to add to the Society's publications this volume of RADISSON'S VOYAGES. The narratives contained in it are the record of events and transactions in which the author was a principal actor. They were apparently written without any intention of publication, and are plainly authentic and trustworthy. They have remained in manuscript more than two hundred years, and in the mean time appear to have escaped the notice of scholars, as not even extracts from them have, so far as we are aware, found their way into print. The author was a native of France, and had an imperfect knowledge of the English language. The journals, with the exception of the last in the volume, are, however, written in that language, and, as might be anticipated, in orthography, in the use of words, and in the structure of sentences, conform to no known standard of English composition. But the meaning is in all cases clearly conveyed, and, in justice both to the author and the reader, they have been printed _verbatim et literatim_, as in the original manuscripts. We desire to place upon record our high appreciation of the courtesy extended to the Editor of this volume by the governors of the Bodleian Library and of the British Museum, in allowing him to copy the original manuscripts in their possession. Our thanks likewise are here tendered to Mr. Edward Denham for the gratuitous contribution of the excellent index which accompanies the volume. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, _President of the Prince Society_. BOSTON, 249 BERKELEY STREET, November 20, 1885. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PREFACE INTRODUCTION FIRST VOYAGE OF PETER ESPRIT RADISSON SECOND VOYAGE, MADE IN THE UPPER COUNTRY OF THE IROQUOITS THIRD VOYAGE, MADE TO THE GREAT LAKE OF THE HURONS, UPPER SEA OF THE EAST, AND BAY OF THE NORTH FOURTH VOYAGE OF PETER ESPRIT RADISSON RELATION OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH PARTS OF AMERICA IN THE YEARS 1682 AND 1683 RELATION OF THE VOYAGE ANNO 1684 OFFICERS OF THE PRINCE SOCIETY THE PRINCE SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS OF THE PRINCE SOCIETY VOLUMES IN PREPARATION BY THE PRINCE SOCIETY INDEX INTRODUCTION.