Farming and commerce were the sources of their wealth.

Their priests and missionaries were content to labor with the Indians near at hand.
In the second place, the policy of the French towards the Indians, while founded on trade, was directed by one central government.

The policy of the English was directed by each colony, and was of as many kinds as there were colonies.

No English frontier exhibited such a mingling of white men and red as was common wherever the French went.

Among the English there were fur traders, but no _coureurs de bois_.