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I calc'late about that time to get to a place whar I can hit the current that'll take me, with the risin tide, up to old Petticoat Jack." "By the way, captain," said Phil, "what do you seafaring men believe about the origin of that name Petitcodiac? Is it Indian or French?" "'Tain't neither," said Captain Corbet, decidedly.
The next day's journey brought them to the carrying place between the Petitcodiac and the Canaan river, which they crossed and encamped.
The misery of the Acadians there is so great that Boishebert has been compelled to reduce their allowance to ten pounds of peas and twelve pounds of meat per month, and it would have been further reduced had not forty bullocks been brought from Petitcodiac.
At last the scene before them changed from a sheet of water to a broad expanse of mud. The water had all retired, leaving the bed of the river exposed. Of all the rivers that flow into the Bay of Fundy none is more remarkable than the Petitcodiac.
Here, in the estuary of the Petitcodiac, where the river meets the wave of the tide, the volumes contending cause the Great Bore, as it is called; and as in this region the swine wade out into the mud in search of shell fish, they are sometimes swept away and drowned. The Amazon River also has its Bore; the Indians, trying to imitate the sound of the roaring water, call it "pororoca."
Shortly after his arrival at the French settlements on the Petitcodiac, Boishebert had a sharp engagement with a party of New England troops who had been sent there to burn the houses of the Acadians and who were about to set fire to their chapel.
So he threw it aside, and boldly trusted to his sail alone. The boat seemed to him to be making very respectable progress. The wind was fresh, and the sea only moderate. The little waves beat over the bows, and there was quite a commotion astern. Tom thought he was doing very well, and heading as near as possible towards the Petitcodiac.
Besides, as long as they were in motion, they had the consciousness that they were doing something, and that of itself was a comfort; but now, even that consolation was taken away from them, and in their forced inaction they fell back again into the same despondency which they had felt at Petitcodiac. "It's all this fog, I do believe," said Captain Corbet.
No, sir; the boat that'll drift down Petticoat Jack into the bay, without gettin ashore, 'll drift up them straits into Minas jest the same." "Well, there does seem something in that. I didn't think of his drifting down the Petitcodiac." "Somethin? Bless your heart! ain't that everythin?" "But do you think there's really a chance yet?" "A chance? Course thar is. While thar's life thar's hope."
"First, sir, we will sail to the Petitcodiac River, and go up it as far as Moncton, where Bruce, and Arthur, and Tom will leave us." "And then?" "Then we will go to St. John, where Phil, and Pat, and I will leave her. Solomon, too, will leave her there." "Solomon!" cried the doctor. "What! Solomon! Is Solomon going? Why, what can I do without Solomon? Here! Hallo! Solomon!
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