The coming of the peoples . the Rouen parliament,asking to be freed and to be allowed to take moremen to Acadia. He was released on the conditionthat he make no further efforts at la Roche submitted, only urging that a rescueexpedition be sent to Sable Island. He had but lit-tle success, for the men of Rouen thought thatdeath on a desert island was a sufficiently goodending for a pack of mutinous jail-birds. It wasnot until five years had passed that a rescue expe-dition was sent. Of the forty mutineers who had been left onSable Island, only seven remained alive. At firstthey h
The coming of the peoples . the Rouen parliament,asking to be freed and to be allowed to take moremen to Acadia. He was released on the conditionthat he make no further efforts at la Roche submitted, only urging that a rescueexpedition be sent to Sable Island. He had but lit-tle success, for the men of Rouen thought thatdeath on a desert island was a sufficiently goodending for a pack of mutinous jail-birds. It wasnot until five years had passed that a rescue expe-dition was sent. Of the forty mutineers who had been left onSable Island, only seven remained alive. At firstthey had lived on a few scrawny cattle, the de-scendants of those left on the island by an expe-dition led by the Baron de Lery in 1518, of whichexpedition little definite information is known. As their food diminished, the ex-convicts foughtand killed each other, until, by the spring follow-ing, there remained but twenty of them. Reahz-ing that their disunion only brought them greatersuffering, they adopted communism—that last. \Jt I r V , / ^%^^ ^^ Map showing the luiyli^h iind French settlements, the results of their warfare in Arcadia,the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Maine. f^^Z^S^^j
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