United States

 IROQUOIS AMBITION. - ITS VICTIMS. - THE FATE OF THE NEUTRALS. - 
 THE FATE OF THE ERIES. - THE WAR WITH THE ANDASTES. - 
 SUPREMACY OF THE IROQUOIS.

 CONVERSION OF LOYOLA. - FOUNDATION OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. - 
 PREPARATION OF THE NOVICE. - CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORDER. - 
 THE CANADIAN JESUITS.

 INFANCY OF MONTREAL. - THE FLOOD. - VOW OF MAISONNEUVE. - PILGRIMAGE. - 
 D'AILLEBOUST. - THE HOTEL-DIEU. - PIETY. - PROPAGANDISM. - WAR. - 
 HURONS AND IROQUOIS. - DOGS. - SALLY OF THE FRENCH. - BATTLE. - 
 EXPLOIT OF MAISONNEUVE.

 FAILURE OF THE JESUITS. - WHAT THEIR SUCCESS WOULD HAVE INVOLVED. - 
 FUTURE OF THE MISSION.

 LE JEUNE'S VOYAGE. - HIS FIRST PUPILS. - HIS STUDIES. - 
 HIS INDIAN TEACHER. - WINTER AT THE MISSION-HOUSE. - 
 LE JEUNE'S SCHOOL. - REINFORCEMENTS.

 IROQUOIS PRISONERS. - PISKARET. - HIS EXPLOITS. - MORE PRISONERS. - 
 IROQUOIS EMBASSY. - THE ORATOR. - THE GREAT COUNCIL. - 
 SPEECHES OF KIOTSATON. - MUSTER OF SAVAGES. - PEACE CONFIRMED.

THE WEST. - After Great Britain obtained from France the country between the mountains and the Mississippi, the British king, as we have seen (p. 143), forbade settlement west of the mountains. But the westward movement of population was not to be stopped by a proclamation. The hardy frontiersmen gave it no heed, and, passing over the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina, they hunted, trapped, and made settlements in the forbidden land.

THREE ISSUES. - After the collapse of the Confederacy, our countrymen were called on to meet three issues arising directly from the war: -

1. The first was, What shall be done to destroy the institution of slavery? [1]

2. The second was, What shall be done with the late Confederate states? [2]

3. The third had to do with the national debt and the currency.

OUR BOUNDARIES. - By the treaty of 1783 our country was bounded on the north by a line (very much as at present) from the mouth of the St. Croix River in Maine to the Lake of the Woods; on the west by the Mississippi River; and on the south by the parallel of 31° north latitude from the Mississippi to the Apalachicola, and then by the present south boundary of Georgia to the sea. [1]