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Updated: June 23, 2025
By this, La Chesnaye had distributed so generous a treat that half the sailors were roaring out hilarious mirth. Godefroy astride a bench played big drum on the wrong-end-up of the cook's dish-pan. Allemand attempted to fiddle a poker across the tongs.
Take me over the sea, where the Allemand can't get at me, Oh, my, I don't want to die, I want to go home" when overhead came a "swish" through the air, rapidly followed by three others.
"Coming to Potsdam, thirteen years after, in the spring of 1726, by his Majesty's order, to" in fact, to read the Newspapers to his Majesty, and be generally useful, chiefly in the Tobacco-College, as we shall discover, "what was my surprise to find this same 'GEANT ALLEMAND' of St. Germain ranked among the King's Grenadiers!
But Allemand, who had been hauling out the big canoe, came up sullenly. "Sir," he complained, "the river's running ice the size of a raft, and the wind's a-blowing a gale." "Man," retorted M. de Radisson with the quiet precision of steel, "if the river were running live fire and the gale blew from the inferno, I would go! Stay home and go to bed, Allemand."
Vice-Admiral Allemand carefully fortified the isle of Aix against an attack, the nature of which he had foreseen, though not the extent.
Outside, the Indians held high carnival; for Allemand, the gin-soaked pilot, was busy passing drink through the loopholes to a pandemonium of savages raving outside the stockades.
He could not openly favor Radisson; but he winked at the expedition by granting passports to the explorers, and the three men who were to accompany him, Jean Baptiste, son of Groseillers, Pierre Allemand, the pilot who was afterward given a commission to explore the Eskimo country, and Jean Godefroy, an interpreter. Jean Baptiste, Radisson's nephew, invested 500 pounds in goods for barter.
If ye can do for us, we will dance for you anything that ye may desire the 'Queen's Own Measure, 'La Donzella, the new 'Allemand' of my Lord Pembroke, a pavone or a tinternell, or the 'Galliard of Savoy. Which doth it please you, mistresses?" and he bowed to the huddling young women, who scarcely knew what to make of it. "La! Joan," whispered one, "he calleth thee 'mistress'! Speak up, wench."
"You, Allemand and Godefroy, will cross the marsh to-night, bidding Chouart be ready for attack and send back re-enforcements here! You two lads" pointing to the stowaway and scullion "will boil down bears' grease and porpoise fat for a half a hundred cressets! Cut up all the brooms in the fort! Use pine-boughs! Split the green wood and slip in oiled rags!
The stench and filth exceeded anything I had ever witnessed in any ship, and the noise and confusion gave me some idea of their famous Mountain. I was ushered into the Commodore's cabin, who at least received me civilly. His name was Citizen Allemand. He did not appear to have the right of excluding any of his fellow-citizens even from this place.
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