It startles the modern reader in examining documents of the French archivesrelating to the colonies to come upon a letter from Louis XIII. to his belovedDAulnay... » 

It startles the modern reader in examining documents of the French archivesrelating to the colonies to come upon a letter from Louis XIII. to his belovedDAulnay de Charnisay thanking that governor of Acadia for his good service atFort St. John. Thus was that great race who first trod down the wilderness onthis continent continually and cruelly hampered by the man who sat on thethrone in France. «