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I myself was, as became my purpose, most like a small captain of militia, doing wood service, and in the braver costume of the coureur de bois. I signalled to the Indians, and, coming near, addressed them in French. They were deceived, and presently, abreast of them, in the midst of apparent ceremony, their firelocks were seized, and Mr. Stevens and Clark had them safe.
If you feed us well and disguise yourself as a coureur, I'll take you at sundown!" And in spite of his second officer's signals, Ben Gillam hailed us forthwith to the fort, where M. Radisson's keen eyes took in every feature of door and gate and sally-port and gun.
Rene d'Amours had an extensive trade with the Indians, he was unmarried and lived the life of a typical "coureur de bois." He married Jeanne le Borgne, and their son Alexander was baptized at Port Royal in 1702 by a Recollet missionary. The grants of Louis d'Amours at Richibucto, and of Mathieu and Rene on the St.
It was a disease with him, for which there was no cure. In outward appearance he was a typical B.C. specimen of the obsolete "coureur de bois" of eastern Canada during the seventeenth century. The walls were composed of the rough timbers, and the chinks were stuffed with rags and old newspapers.
"I am called Iberville," said the young man simply. Then: "My father and myself started from Quebec with good Nick Perrot, the coureur du bois " "I know him too," the governor interjected "a scoundrel worth his weight in gold to your Count Frontenac." "For whose head Count Frontenac has offered gold in his time," answered Iberville, with a smile.
Coureur de bois and priest had penetrated these regions, as we have seen; but now was to take place the formal possession by the crown of a territory that was coming to be recognized as valuable in itself, even if no stream ran though it to the coasts that looked on Asia. The scene is kept for us with much detail and color.
I myself was, as became my purpose, most like a small captain of militia, doing wood service, and in the braver costume of the coureur de bois. I signalled to the Indians, and, coming near, addressed them in French. They were deceived, and presently, abreast of them, in the midst of apparent ceremony, their firelocks were seized, and Mr. Stevens and Clark had them safe.
Sulpice, around Carder's mountain into Montreal, and thence to the Rock of Quebec. It is a common, unimaginative metaphor in the United States to call the engine which leads the mighty trains across the country the iron horse; but it is deserving of a nobler figure. It is the iron coureur de bois, still leading Europe into America, and America into a newer America. In the lower St.
When I came back to the settlements at Quebec I was seized for a coureur de bois, a free trader. I was herded like a criminal into a French ship, sent over seas to a French prison, branded with a French iron, and set like a brute to pull without reason at a bar of wood in the king's galleys the king's hell!" "And yet you are a Frenchman," sneered Wilson.
A Frenchman at Michilimackinac, unless he were a missionary or a government agent, incurred severe displeasure, and many were the edicts which sought to prevent the colonists from taking to the woods. But, whatever the laws might say, the coureur de bois could not be put down. From time to time he was placed under restraint, but only for a moment.
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