While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,. . . Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,. . . had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.