. Wayfaring in France, from Auvergne to the Bay of Biscay. Oh no. He would have allowed me to leave with theimpression that the Carthusians of Vauclaire didnothing beyond observing the canonical hours ; butI learnt from the peasants of the country that, likethe Trappists, they laboured industriously in clearingand draining; the desert. My walk across the Double ended at Montpont, asmall agricultural centre on the banks of the Isle*offering no charm to the traveller, unless he be acommercial one. It was a little fortified town of . THE ENGLISH AT MONTPONT 365 some importance in the Middle Ages.
. Wayfaring in France, from Auvergne to the Bay of Biscay. Oh no. He would have allowed me to leave with theimpression that the Carthusians of Vauclaire didnothing beyond observing the canonical hours ; butI learnt from the peasants of the country that, likethe Trappists, they laboured industriously in clearingand draining; the desert. My walk across the Double ended at Montpont, asmall agricultural centre on the banks of the Isle*offering no charm to the traveller, unless he be acommercial one. It was a little fortified town of . THE ENGLISH AT MONTPONT 365 some importance in the Middle Ages. In 1370 theBretons in garrison at Perigueux besieged it, and itwas surrendered without a struggle by the baron,Guillaume de Montpont, an English partisan. TheDuke of Lancaster then hurried up and besiegedthe place with one hundred men-at-arms and fivehundred archers. For eleven weeks the little bandof Bretons held out, but a breach having been madein the wall, Montpont again fell into the power ofthe i^r »it«»- The Dronne at Coutras. A CANOE VOYAGE OX THE DRONNE Before starting- upon a long-thought-of voyagedown the Dronne, I resolved to make the canoe lookas beautiful as possible, so that it might produce afavourable impression upon the natives of theregions through which it was going to pass. I hadlearnt from experience that when one can take the 160 ACROSS COUNTRY IN A BOAT 367 edge off suspicion by giving ones self or onesbelongings a respectable appearance, that does notcost much, it is well to do it. Therefore I sent the barefooted Helie, whoalways helped me when I had any dirty work onhand, to buy some paint. Having first puttied upall the cracks and crevices, we laid the paint on, andas the colour chosen was a very pale green, theeffect was anything but vulgar. When the boatwas put on the water again it looked like a floatingwillow-leaf of rather uncommon size. Now, between the river Isle, where I was, andthe Dronne, where I wished to be, there wasan obsta
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