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During this period no one had challenged the title of France to the shores of the St Lawrence; in fact, a country so desolate made no appeal to the French themselves. Roberval's tragic experience at Cap Rouge had proved a warning. To the average Frenchman of the sixteenth century Canada meant what it afterwards meant to Sully and Voltaire.
Another hour's thinking may help me to find some way of escape from the Sieur de Roberval's wrath." "I fear, good Etienne, he will never forgive you if his plot miscarries. He is not a man to break his promises. Perhaps we may see an easier way out of it than by means of a rope. Who commands the guard to-night?" "Pierre Dablon." "Would he let you pass without doubting your word?"
When Charles arrived at St Malo he found that his messenger, Etienne Brulé, had reached the town in safety, and that De Roberval's horse was being well looked after in Cartier's stables. No pursuit was attempted, and it became evident that Etienne's master would make no effort to bring him back.
He anxiously awaited the news which Cartier brought, and his first enquiries naturally were for his friend, De Pontbriand. "Ill, and in danger?" he exclaimed, when Cartier had repeated to him De Roberval's words. "I must go to him at once." "Have I not just told you," said Cartier, "that no one can see him? De Roberval refused me that privilege, and think you that he will grant you permission?
Duval was strangled at Quebec, and his head was placed on a pike which was set up in the most conspicuous part of the fort. This was the second example of capital punishment in New France. The first case recorded was at Charlesbourg Royal, or Cap-Rouge, near Quebec, in the winter of 1542-3, when Michel Gaillon, one of Roberval's companions, was put to death.
On board ship Roberval felt more or less assured of safety; but as his destination drew nigh he made up his mind that, once on land, Gaillon must be put out of the way, or he would not be free one moment from the terror of assassination. Gaillon himself was quick to divine all that passed in Roberval's mind.
I am my own master on the high seas; and Jacques Cartier will brook insult from no man." His hand sought his sword as he spoke, and De Roberval's weapon flashed from its sheath. A quarrel was imminent; but Roberval's rage seemed to subside as suddenly as it had arisen. "Put up your sword," he said sternly. "We are the leaders, and the death of one or both of us would mean ruin to the enterprise."
There is reason to believe, however, that while Roberval's discovery was made before Torricelli's, the latter reached his conclusions independently. In recent chapters we have seen science come forward with tremendous strides. A new era is obviously at hand.
His Exploration of the St. Lawrence. A Bitter Winter. Cartier's Treachery and its Punishment. Roberval's Disastrous Expedition. How early the first Frenchmen visited America it is hard to say.
She had been in the service of De Roberval's family all her life; and once, by her courage and devotion, had actually saved his castle when it was besieged by the Spaniards.
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