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Detroit closed the entrance to Lake Huron, and Michillimackinac guarded the point where Lake Huron is joined by Lakes Michigan and Superior; while the fort called La Baye, at the head of Green Bay, stopped the way to the Mississippi by Marquette's old route of Fox River and the Wisconsin.
There was an affair of this kind on the morning of the surrender, during which a noted Micmac chief was shot, and being brought into the camp, recounted the losses of his tribe; "after which, and taking a dram or two, he quickly died," writes Winslow in his Journal. Fort Gaspereau, at Baye Verte, twelve miles distant, was summoned by letter to surrender.
I was so glad to be alive after touching death that I could think of Madame de Ferrier without pain, and say more confidently "She is not dead," because resurrection was working in myself. Green Bay or La Baye, as the fur hunters called it, was a little post almost like a New England village among its elms: one street and a few outlying houses beside the Fox River.
In the Petit Morin are many of these that have been explored and described by the Baron de Baye. I have already spoken of the habitable caves there found. But there were sepulchral chambers excavated in the chalk as well.
Captain Etherington succeeded in sending timely warning to the little garrison at La Baye; Lieutenant Gorrell, the commandant, and his men were brought as prisoners to the Michilimackinac fort and thence sent with Etherington and Leslie to the Canadian capital. The little post of Ste. The garrison inmates had withdrawn to Michilimackinac and shared its fate.
And seinge the savages of the Graunde Baye, and all alonge the mightie ryver that ronneth upp to Canada and Hochelaga, are greately delighted with any cappe or garment made of course wollen clothe, their contrie beinge colde and sharpe in the winter, this is manifeste wee shall finde greate utteraunce of our clothes, especially of our coursest and basest northerne doosens, and our Irishe and Welshe frizes and rugges; whereby all occupations belonginge to clothinge and knittinge shalbe freshly sett on worke, as cappers, knitters, clothiers, wollmen, carders, spyners, weavers, fullers, sheremen, dyers, drapers, hatters and such like, whereby many decayed townes may be repaired.
She rowed alone upon the river, and went where she pleased. The men in La Baye would step aside for her. Strangers disturbed her by bringing the consciousness of something unusual. Once I surprised Marie and Katarina sitting close to the fire at twilight, talking about lovers. Eagle was near them on a stool.
'I know it is very distressing, but it would be more right and safe if I knew what it amounts to. And another time he said he had wandered Europe over to to find loveliness on the banks of the Baye. Wasn't it absurd?
"General Bugeaud remarked in the course of a speech in the Chamber that 'obedience is always a soldier's duty. 'What if the order be to become a turnkey? asked Dulong, in allusion to the General's position in relation to the Duchess of Berri, during her pregnancy and confinement at Baye. Armand Carrel endeavored to pacificate, but the effort failed.
But Cadillac's fingers were soon drumming. "It was odd that they did not demand the English prisoners," he said. I felt placid enough as regarded that point. "They did not dare. When do the Senecas leave?" "To-morrow morning. Oh, Montlivet, it grinds me to let them go!" I shrugged at his choler. "We will follow," I comforted. "We will overtake them at La Baye." "But suppose they leave La Baye.
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