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"Then you might send a dozen brace o' partridges, some oil, and candles." With that they fell to talking in lower tones; and M. Radisson came away with quiet, unspoken mirth in his eyes, leaving Captain Gillam in better mood. "Curse me if he doesn't make those partridges an excuse to go back soon," exclaimed La Chesnaye. "The ship would be of some value; but why take the men prisoners?
"A quick death were kindness, sir," groans La Chesnaye, scalloping in blind zigzags for the stair. "May I be shot from that cannon, sir, if I ever set foot on ship again!" M. de Radisson laughs, and the place of the merchant prince is taken by the marquis with a face the gray shade of old Tibbie's linen a-bleaching on the green. The Ste. Anne, under Groseillers whom we called Mr.
Charlevoix gives the number of victims at two hundred killed and one hundred and twenty taken prisoner. Girouard's examination of parish registers results in a lower estimate namely, twenty-four killed at Lachine and forty-two at La Chesnaye, a short time afterwards. Whatever the number, it was the most dreadful catastrophe which the colony had yet suffered.
La Chesnaye had saved his furs; but the half of the cargo that was the share of Radisson and Groseillers had been seized at Quebec. On arriving in France, Groseillers presented a memorial of their wrong to the court. Probably because England and France were allied by treaty at that time, the petition for redress was ignored. Groseillers was now an old man.
Forêt and La Chesnaye were watching from loopholes at the gates, and I was all alert from my place in the bastion. The northern lights waved overhead in a restless ocean of rose-tinted fire. Against the blue, stars were aglint with the twinkle of a million harbour lights.
Such foundationless accusations have been written against Radisson by historians who ought to have known better, about these furs, that I quote the final orders of the government on the subject: November 5, 1683, M. de la Barre forbids Chalons, agent of La Ferme du Canada, confiscating the furs brought from Hudson Bay; November 8 M. de la Chesnaye is to be paid for the furs seized.
We must be off!" Again the soldiers cheered. "Well, there's that turncoat of a Stanhope with his fine airs. I'd rather see him shot next than any one else!" "Thank you, Ben," said I. "Come over here, Ramsay," orders Radisson. "That's two. Go on! Five more!" The soldiers fell to laughing and Ben to pulling at his mustache. "That money-bag of a La Chesnaye next," mutters Ben.
'He proposed to me, Radisson says, 'to undertake to establish the beaver trade in the great Bay where I had been some years before on account of the English. It may be supposed that naval discipline ill-suited these wild wood-wanderers, and after this it is not surprising that we find Radisson and Groseilliers again in New France at a conference of fur traders and explorers, among whom were La Salle, Jolliet, Charles Le Moyne, the soldier with the famous sons, and La Chesnaye.
Much better shoot them down as they would us, an they had the chance!" "La Chesnaye!" uttered a sharp voice. Radisson had heard. "There are two things I don't excuse a fool for not minding his own business and not holding his tongue." And though La Chesnaye's money paid for the enterprise, he held his tongue mighty still.
And to give you an idea of the fearful tide breaking through the narrow fiords of that rock-bound coast, I may tell you that La Chesnaye and I have often seen those leviathans of the deep swept tail foremost by the driving tide into some land-locked lagoon and there beached high on naked rock.
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