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Updated: May 17, 2025
They approached my boys threateningly, whereupon they all ran away, with the exception of the ringleader of the mutineers of the last few days, who sat down on the box containing the trading-stock and said they had better go and see whether I was really dead before plundering my luggage.
Of course in this, as in all other similar enterprises, Sir Amorous must have a certain trading-stock of favor to start with. But if he have this much, 'tis not difficult to increase it by honest endeavor, and, as it were, the sweat of his brain. So at least I am told by those who have proved it.
Bereft of his property in the midst of hostile Indians, who might change their minds, return, and massacre him and his party many hundred miles from home, or from any settlement of whites a wide desert to be traversed the further discouragement that there was no object for his going home, now that he was stripped of all his trading-stock perhaps to be laughed at on his return no prospect of satisfaction or indemnity, for he well knew that his government would send out no expedition to revenge so humble an individual as he was he knew, in fact, that no expedition of Spanish soldiery could penetrate to the place, even if they had the will; but to fancy Vizcarra and Roblado sending one on his account!
Weaver's Mission, and there was a free-trader also close by, named Johnston, whose brother, a fine-looking native missionary, assisted at an interesting service we attended in the Mission church, conducted in Cree and English, the voices in the Cree hymns being very soft and sweet. Mr. Ladoucere was also near with his trading-stock, so that business, it was feared, would be overdone.
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