The picturesque StLawrence . fringed with scalp-locks,and colored blankets or robes of bison hide andbeaver skin, while their heads bristled withcrests of hair, eagle feathers, or antlers. The governor made a speech and a representa-tive of each of the thirty-one tribes which hadmembers present responded. Then the peacepipe was passed around, and the treaty was dulysigned, each tribal representative afl&xing hismark in the shape of some bird, beast, fish orother object. With the passing years Indian aggressionsbecame increasingly rare; but the savages ashunters and trappers long continued to b
The picturesque StLawrence . fringed with scalp-locks,and colored blankets or robes of bison hide andbeaver skin, while their heads bristled withcrests of hair, eagle feathers, or antlers. The governor made a speech and a representa-tive of each of the thirty-one tribes which hadmembers present responded. Then the peacepipe was passed around, and the treaty was dulysigned, each tribal representative afl&xing hismark in the shape of some bird, beast, fish orother object. With the passing years Indian aggressionsbecame increasingly rare; but the savages ashunters and trappers long continued to be ofvital importance in the material welfare ofCanada. Early in the eighteenth century smallquantities of timber and wheat began to be ex-ported, yet the country was still chiefly depend-ent on the trafllic in beaver skins. To induce theIndians to come to the settlements annual fairswere inaugurated at Montreal and Three at the former place was particularly im-portant, and on the day following the arrival of. :^ Early Montreal 89 the fleet of pelt-laden canoes a grand council washeld on the common between the river and Street. The gathering was a strangemedley of Indians, French bush-rangers, greedytraders, priests and nuns, and officials. In these years of peace the town graduallygrew and in 1760 it had nine thousand inhabi-tants and was somewhat larger than in September of that year an English ex-pedition landed at Lachine. It had come downthe river, and in running the rapids no less thanforty-six of its boats had been totally wrecked,and nearly a hundred men drowned. But thiswas far from crippling it, and the invaders weresoon encamped before the town walls. Montrealwas at that time a long narrow assemblage ofwooden and stone houses, churches and convents,surrounded by a bastioned stone wall made fordefence against Indians, but incapable of re-sisting cannon. The town was crowded withrefugees, and could muster only about twenty-five hundred d
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