The picturesque StLawrence . two ofthe ships sailed for home, and winter came the colony found that though they hadstorehouses there were no stores; they had mills,but no grist; an ample oven, yet lacked bought fish of the Indians, and dug rootswhich they boiled in whale-oil. Disease brokeout, and before spring a third of the settlers haddied. Roberval ruled his followers with a rodof iron. The quarrels of the men and the scold-ing of the women were alike punished at thewhipping-post, by which means they lived inpeace. An attempt to explore the upper riverresulted in the los
The picturesque StLawrence . two ofthe ships sailed for home, and winter came the colony found that though they hadstorehouses there were no stores; they had mills,but no grist; an ample oven, yet lacked bought fish of the Indians, and dug rootswhich they boiled in whale-oil. Disease brokeout, and before spring a third of the settlers haddied. Roberval ruled his followers with a rodof iron. The quarrels of the men and the scold-ing of the women were alike punished at thewhipping-post, by which means they lived inpeace. An attempt to explore the upper riverresulted in the loss of eight men, and the wholeexperience of the colony was so dismal that theremnants presently returned to their native the final fate of Roberval there are con-flicting accounts. The most interesting one is tothe effect that he made another voyage to theNew World and went up the Saguenay; and itis affirmed by the natives that he and his follow-ers have never returned but are still wanderingsomewhere in the II THE THOUSAND ISLANDS ON THE Canadian side of the river, wherethe St. Lawrence leaves Lake Ontario andbegins to thread its way among the intricacies ofthe Thousand Islands, stands the historic cityof Kingston. Here was established a w^ildernessoutpost in the days of the early French Frontenac, then Governor of New France,selected the site in 1673 and erected a strongwooden blockhouse to protect the fur trade be-tween Montreal and the northwestern by about four hundred men, in-cluding a considerable proportion of missionIndians, he came himself from Quebec to see thework done. The journey was made in a hundredand twenty canoes and two large flat-boats were painted with strange de-vices in red and blue that the Iroquois who hadbeen invited to a council might be dazzled by theunwonted display of splendor. The council met where the city now is, andthere was speech-making and much flattery and 24 The Picturesq
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