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Nevertheless, he was both brave and skilful, and had gained the respect of his people by deeds in war, as well as success in the hunts. A far nobler name would long since have fallen to his share, had not a French-man of rank inadvertently given him this sobriquet, which he religiously preserved as coming from his Great Father who lived beyond the Wide Salt Lake.
There was a French-man with a long tail he only came to the edge of the camp, and as soon as the batteries opened up turned back, but the Englishman didn't stop for anything. He dropped a bomb or two every time he passed one man must have been square under one, for they found pieces of him, but never did find his head.
"In 1823, forty-seven years ago, after having studied," says M. Guizot, "in my Essays upon a Comparative History of France and England, the great fact which we have just now attempted to make clearly understood, I concluded my labor by saying, 'Before our revolution, this difference between the political fates of France and England might have saddened a French-man: but now, in spite of the evils we have suffered and in spite of those we shall yet, perhaps, suffer, there is no room, so far as we are concerned, for such sadness.
At Beynac I made the acquaintance of a French-man who, after angling for riches a sport at which he lost much bait and caught nothing turned all his attention to the fish in the Dordogne.
They also sent traders to buy furs from the Indians. The French-men heard the Indians talk about a great river in the West. But no French-man had ever gone far enough to see the Mis-sis-sip-pi. Mar-quette was a priest. Jo-li-et was a trader. These two men were sent to find the great river that the Indians talked about. They trav-eled in two birch canoes. They took five men to paddle the canoes.
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