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Dined at Mr. Nairne's, where there was a great meeting of Bannatynians, rather too numerous, being on the part of our host an Election dinner. March 7. Sent away proofs.
On Tom now centred the hopes of the Nairne family. The sands of Nairne's own life were running out. As he looked around him he could see much to make his heart content. He was never unmindful of the singular beauty of the place.
The oil of each beluga was worth £5 and the skin £1. Nairne's own share in a single year from this source of revenue was £70, but even then the industry was declining. We have Nairne's statement of income in 1798 and it indicates simple living at Malbaie.
He becomes Major of the Royal Highland Emigrants. Arnold's march through the wilderness to Quebec. Quebec during the Siege, 1775-76. The habitants and the Americans. Montgomery's plans. The assault on December 31st, 1775. Malcolm Fraser gives the alarm in Quebec. Montgomery's death. Arnold's attack. Nairne's heroism. Arnold's failure. The American fire-ship. The arrival of a British fleet.
It is certainly a disagreeable necessity to be obliged to put one another to death, especially those speaking the same language and dressed in the same manner with ourselves.... These mad people had a large piece of white linen or paper upon their foreheads with the words "Liberty or Death" wrote upon it." Nairne's account is modest enough.
Against the American scouts they had proved no defence; at night they fired off guns in the neighbouring woods and created false alarms, which prevented Nairne's men from getting their proper sleep. "My men work hard in the day," he said, "and I will have them to sleep sound at night," and he warned the Indians that he would fire upon them if their noise disturbed him further.
As it was, Murray wrote on a sheet of ordinary foolscap, still preserved at Murray Bay, a brief deed of the land and, behold, the two young officers have become landed proprietors! To their request for permission to use Murray's name, in grateful remembrance of his kindness, he also assented. Nairne's seigniory was to be called Murray's Bay and Fraser's Mount Murray.
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