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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Nous vimes l'endroit qu'on appelle le grand Sault Saint Jean-Baptiste, ou la riviere de Saint Jean faisant du haut d'un rocher fort eleve une terrible cascade dans un abime, forme un brouillard qui derobe l'eau a la veue, et fait un bruit qui avertit de loin les navigateurs de descendre de leurs canots." Medoctec was undoubtedly the principal Indian village on the St.
At the end of twenty minutes our thirst stimulated by an especially salty dose of lukewarm water for lunch attained truly desperate proportions. Several of the bolder thirsters leaned from the various windows of the room and cried "De l'eau, planton; de l'eau, s'il vous plait"
L'eau courante means running water, doesn't it? That's what you call me." In the surprise of the revelation she forgot her unease and looked at him, repeating slowly, "L'eau courante, running water. Why, of course. But it's like an Indian's name." "It is an Indian's name. The Blackfeet gave it to me because they said I could run so fast.
Good-night, mademoiselle: il me faut absolument de l'eau de vie I can wait for it no longer. Bon soir!" She turned and left the house as rapidly as she had come. Lettice sank down upon a couch, and hid her face in the cushion. She could not shed a tear, but she was trembling from head to foot, and felt sick and faint.
I pass between bold bluffs that hem thy surging waves, and trace with pleasant wonder their singular and varied outlines now soaring abruptly upward, now carried in gentle undulations along the blue horizon. I behold the towering form of that noted landmark "La montaigne qui trempe a l'eau," and the swelling cone on whose summit the soldier-traveller pitched his tent.
"On parle d'un poisson de mer qui, sortant de l'eau, monte sur la cocotier et boit le suc de la plante; ensuite il retourne á la mer."
The bucket, swayed by the movement, threw a jet of water on her foot. He moved back from her and said, "I like the Indian name best." "It is pretty," and in a lower key, as though trying its sound, she repeated softly, "L'eau Courante, Running Water." "It's something clear and strong, sometimes shallow and then again deeper than you can guess.
Hippolyte was waiting among the other servants with our peignoirs, and presently he clapped his hands to insure attention, and shouted, "Il ne faut pas que Madame la Baronne reste trop longtemps se mouillant les pieds, elle prendrait froid, mieux vaut sortir de l'eau!"
In the morning, when we came downstairs, the landlady pointed out to us two pails of water behind the street-door. 'Voila de l'eau pour vous debarbouiller, says she.
"An Injin! Yes, an out-and-out Cherokee. You see he calls himself Dorman Low Dorman. That's only French for 'Sleeping Water, his Injin name! 'Low Dorman." "You mean 'L'Eau Dormante," said Nellie. "That's what I said. The chief called him 'Sleeping Water' when he was a boy, and one of them French Canadian trappers translated it into French when he brought him to California to school.
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