crossbow-maker

Updated: April 30, 2025

Four of them were boys, who kept Ribaut's dogs, and another was his cook. Besides these, he had left a brewer, an old crossbow-maker, two shoemakers, a player on the spinet, four valets, a carpenter of threescore, Challeux, no doubt, who has left us the story of his woes, with a crowd of women, children, and eighty-six camp-followers.

Francis Parkman - Pioneers of France in the New World