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 | | By collecting information furnished by each of these peoples, and by completing the missing pieces from each of his expeditions, he put together a gigantic geographic puzzle and gave France control of the important strategic waterways; the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi and thus, supremacy in North America. |
 | | To gather this knowledge from the natives, Samuel de Champlain decided to send on a mission one Etienne Brûlé whom Champlain referred to as "my boy", and who was also one of the eight survivors of the winter of 1608. |
 | | All alone, among a foreign people, Etienne Brûlé had to learn their language, their traditions, and come to know their lands: "I was forced to remain and to pass all the winter, waiting for company and escort. |
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