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Pierre anchored in the cove of a river that raced to meet the bay. The screaming gulls knew not what to make of these strange visitors; for we were at Port Nelson Fort Bourbon, as the French called it. And you must not forget that we were French on that trip! These expressions are M. de Radisson's and not words coined by Mr.
The Iroquois were smarting from their defeat of the previous night; and what was Radisson's amusement to see his own scouts and the Iroquois running from each other in equal fright, while the ground between lay strewn with booty! Radisson rushed his Indians for the waterside to intercept the Iroquois' flight.
They were welcomed to a fort breakfast and passed pretty compliments to Madame Sargeant, and asked blandly after M. Radisson's health, and had the honour to express their most affectionate regard for friend Jean Chouart. Now where might Jean Chouart be? Sargeant did not satisfy their curiosity, nor did he urge them to stay overnight.
Rioting through London streets or playing second in M. Radisson's games of empire, it was possible to forget her, but not in Oxford with the court retinue all about and the hedgerows abloom and spring-time in the air. M. Radisson had gone to present his reports to the king.
Half an hour from the time we had entered the fort, keys, arms, and ammunition were in M. de Radisson's hands without the firing of a shot, and the unarmed New Englanders assigned to the main building, where we could lock them if they mutinied. To sound of trumpet and drum, with Godefroy bobbing his tipstaff, M. Radisson must needs run up the French flag in place of the pirate ensign.
The year that Radisson had been captured, the outraged people of Three Rivers had seized a Mohawk chief and burned him to death. In revenge, the Mohawks murdered the governor of Three Rivers and a company of Frenchmen. Among the slain was the husband of Radisson's sister, Marguerite.
The two fur traders were related, Radisson's sister having married Groseilliers, who was a veteran of one of the Jesuit missions on Lake Huron. Radisson himself, although the hero of many exploits, was not yet twenty-six years of age. Did that Sea of the North of which they had heard find western outlet by the long-sought passage?
"To be sure, Hortense, the lieutenant would not have welcomed me he might have told his fellow to turn me out and made confusion." And I related M. Radisson's morning encounter with Lieutenant Blood, whereat Mistress Hortense uttered such merry peals of laughter I had thought the chapel-bells were chiming. "Ramsay!" she cried impetuously, "I hate this life why did you all send me to it?"
State Papers: "The Governor of New England is ordered to seize all vessels trading in Hudson Bay contrary to charter " Radisson's Journal, p. 277. Robson gives the commission to this governor. Later in Hudson Bay history, when another commander captured the forts, the prisoners were sold into slavery.
When morning came, behold an empty fort! The French renegades had fled with their Indian allies. Glad to be rid of the first hindrance, the explorers once more sped north. In the afternoon, Radisson's scouts ran full tilt into a band of Iroquois laden with beaver pelts.
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