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One of these hung over the Frenchmen's chests, and into it Tim stowed himself away, making the lower surface smooth with the blankets, so that the form of his body should not be observed. A slight slit in the canvas enabled him to breathe and to look down below him.
The Frenchmen's shot came flying through our sails, considerably cutting up our rigging, and two thirty-six pound shot struck our hull; but we repaired damages as fast as we could, and, nothing daunted, stood on.
And, by the way, that Triangle at times got almost as much on the nerves of the outside public as the Frenchmen's celebrated three wife, husband, lover the foundation of their plays. "The psychological effect of Yale's past prestige was all-powerful in every game.
"The younger of the captains laughed savagely, and stepped up to him, pistol in hand. "'I give you ten seconds to tell. "'Five will do, monsieur, replied Robert, in French, 'and then you will be losing five seconds of your time. I shall not tell you. But I should like to say goodbye to my dead captain's children. "'The young Frenchmen's face purpled with fury.
Looking on past these things we saw much scattered dunnage: Frenchmen's knapsacks, flannel shirts, playing cards, fagots of firewood mixed together like jackstraws, canteens covered with slate-blue cloth and having queer little hornlike protuberances on their tops which proved them to be French canteens tumbled straw, odd shoes with their lacings undone, a toptilted service shelter of canvas; all the riffle of a camp that had been suddenly and violently disturbed.
Five ships to the left, Collingwood, in the Barfleur, was making to the admiral whose flag she bore the remark that stirred Thackeray: "Our wives are now about going to church, but we will ring about these Frenchmen's ears a peal which will drown their bells." The French officers, both admirals and captains, were mainly unknown men, alike then and thereafter.
The Frenchmen's gig was awaiting them, and they soon passed down over the side, Captain Dubosc's last words being: "Well, then, mon ami, it is all settled, and our contingent shall be ready for a start punctually at two o'clock Au revoir."
To insure the safety of the French among the Onondagas, the French governor at Quebec seized a dozen Iroquois and kept them as hostages of good conduct. Meanwhile, all was confusion on Lake St. Louis, where the last band of colonists had encamped. The Iroquois had cast the Frenchmen's baggage on the rocks and refused to carry it farther.
It was answered by many voices. "We are Lutherans," cried the French, "we are of the new religion." Then it was the Frenchmen's turn to ask questions. "Who are you," I they cried, "and whence come ye?" "I am Pedro Menendez," replied the voice out of the darkness. "I am Admiral of the fleet of the King of Spain.
The winter was long and bitter; scurvy raided the Frenchmen's cramped quarters, and in the spring only eight followers were alive to greet the ship which came with new colonists and supplies. It took a soul of iron to continue the project of nation-planting after such a tragic beginning; but Champlain was not the man to recoil from the task.
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