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Updated: May 29, 2025
Let us turn now to the subject of the smudge, known in Lower Canada as LA BOUCANE. The smudge owes its existence to the pungent mosquito, the sanguinary black-fly, and the peppery midge, LE MARINGOUIN, LA MOUSTIQUE, ET LE BRULOT. To what it owes its English name I do not know; but its French name means simply a thick, nauseating, intolerable smoke.
When the animal was stripped of its skin, the large bones were drawn from the flesh for the sake of the marrow, of which the two matelots made their stout repast. Portions of the flesh were then boucane by the followers, the rest was left to dogs and birds, and the chase was pursued day by day till a sufficient number of hides were collected.
The Dutch, of course, were friendly, and promised to supply them with necessaries in payment for hides, lard, and meat, boucane. Their favorite haunt was the little island Tortuga, so named, some say, from its resemblance to a turtle afloat, and others, from the abundance of that "green and glutinous" delight of aldermen.
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