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Serving under the French flag, I was not supposed to know English; but when one soldier said he had seen "Mr. What-d'y-call-'im before," pointing at me, I recognised the mate from whom I had hired passage to England for M. Picot on Captain Gillam's ship. "Like enough," says the other, "'tis a land where no man brings his back history."
No attention was paid to the unwonted noise. "I judged," writes Radisson, "that they were careless, and might easily be surprised." He then went across to the river flats, where the tide had left the vessel, and, calmly mounting the ladder, took a survey of Gillam's ship.
"I'm afraid Gillam's got us both boxed," continued Neil. "As for me, I suppose they'll let me in because I can sometimes kick a goal, but I'm worried about Paul. If he'd only Farewell, they are lining up again." "I don't believe Gale will get into the Robinson game," thought Sydney as he took himself toward the side-line.
"A gentleman would be run through the gullet with a clean rapier, but you you would be strangled by sentence of court or sold to the Barbadoes." "Not if the warden o' the court owns half the ship," protested Jack, smiling queerly under his shaggy brows. "Oh ho!" said I, thinking of Rebecca's father, and beginning to understand who supplied money for Ben Gillam's ventures.
Groseillers called it Rupert in honor of his patron. A palisaded fort was at once built, and named King Charles after the English monarch. By December, the bay was locked in the deathly silence of northern frost. Snow fell till the air became darkened day after day, a ceaseless fall of muffling snow; the earth as Gillam's journal says "seemed frozen to death."
They were all acquitted however. At Gillam's trial the judge ruled in his favour, so that the case did not go to the jury. Of the trial of one of the soldiers 'no account was allowed to be published by authority. Ann. Reg. 1768, pp. 108-9, 112, 136-8, 233.
Radisson had left French hostages at Gillam's fort for his safe return, but these had been instructed to place firearms at convenient places and to post themselves so that they could prevent the sudden closing of the gates. Such precautions proved unnecessary. Radisson walked into the New England poacher's fort and quietly took possession.
Then the bastions of Ben Gillam's fort loomed above the wastes like the peak of a ship at sea, and M. Radisson issued his last commands. Godefroy and I were to approach the main gate. M. Radisson and his five men would make a detour to attack from the rear. A black flag waved above the ship to signal those inland pirates whom Ben Gillam was ever cursing, and the main gates stood wide ajar.
The first night the whole crew set on us with drawn swords because we refused to gamble the doublets from our backs. La Chesnaye laid about with his sword and I with my rapier, till the cook rushed to our rescue with a kettle of lye. After that we escaped to the deck of the ship and locked ourselves inside Ben Gillam's cabin.
Report of M. de Meulles to the Minister on the whole affair with the English and New Englanders. An official report on the release of Gillam's boat at Quebec. The memorial presented by Groseillers to the French minister. An official statement of the first discovery of the bay overland. A statement through a third party presumably an official by Radisson himself of these complications dated 1683.
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