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Whether or not the old seigneur knew it at the time, three of his own sons were among the coureurs du bois chieftains by courtesy when they were proclaimed. And it was like Iberville, that, then only a lad, he came in from the woods, went to his father, and astonished him by asking for his blessing.
That is what I feel in regard to French Canada, the province of Quebec, where I have had so many joyful times, and found so many true comrades among the voyageurs, the habitants, and the coureurs de bois. People are saying now that Quebec is not loyal, not brave, not patriotic in this war for freedom and humanity.
He not only had not made preparation to house the explorers; but he refused to permit them inside the stockades of the miserable huts at Okhotsk, which he called his fort. When they built a fort of their own outside, he set himself to tantalize the two Danes, Bering and Spanberg, knouting their men, sending coureurs with false accusations against Bering to St.
They were after me once and a man makes the best time he can then. It was a fine race and I won it, and after that they called me, 'The man that goes like Running Water. The voyageurs and coureurs des bois put it into their lingo and it stuck." "But your real name?" she asked, the pail forgotten. "Just a common French one, Duchesney, Napoleon Duchesney, if you want to know both ends of it.
Coureurs de Bois.% There soon grew up in this way a class of half-civilized vagrants, who ranged the woods in true Indian style, and gained a living by guiding the canoes of fur traders along the rivers and lakes of the interior.
These were a strange mixture: French peasants, half- breeds, Canadian-born Frenchmen, gentlemen of birth with lives and fortunes gone askew, and many of the native Canadian noblesse, who, like the nobles of France, forbidden to become merchants, became adventurers with the coureurs du bois, who were ever with them in spirit more than with the merchant.
I t'ink he kip you here till tam w'en dose perdrix and duck is all grow up beeg' nuff so he can fly." "I'm not watched," said the young man in eager tones: "I'll slip away to-night." "Dat no good," objected Picard. "Wat you do? S'pose you do dat, dose coureurs keel you toute suite. Dey is have good excuse, an' you is have nothing to mak' de fight.
"Better to take la Longue Traverse in summer, eh?" "La Longue Traverse hees not mattaire w'en yo tak' heem." "Right you are. Have there been men sent out since you came here?" "Bâ oui. Wan, two, t'ree. I don' remember. I t'ink Jo Bagneau. Nobodee he don' know, but dat ole man an' hees coureurs du bois. He ees wan ver' great man. Nobodee is know w'at he will do."
Let me without fatiguing statistics give intimation of what I mean in one or two illustrations of the successors of the coureurs de bois, the runners before, the later prophets of the valley.
A new and anomalous class of men gradually grew out of this trade. These were called coureurs des bois, rangers of the woods; originally men who had accompanied the Indians in their hunting expeditions, and made themselves acquainted with remote tracts and tribes; and who now became, as it were, peddlers of the wilderness.
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