The picturesque StLawrence . that had brought dis-grace on him, and he was now anxious to wina new reputation by a noteworthy exploit. Heinvited other young men of Montreal to join inthe enterprise, and sixteen responded. Theybound themselves to accept no quarter andmade their wills; and as they knelt to receivethe sacrament for the last time before the altarin the chapel of the Hotel Dieu, the populationcf the town gazed on them with of the older men begged them to wait tillafter the spring sowing that they might join inthe expedition. But Daulac refused. He wantedboth the glo
The picturesque StLawrence . that had brought dis-grace on him, and he was now anxious to wina new reputation by a noteworthy exploit. Heinvited other young men of Montreal to join inthe enterprise, and sixteen responded. Theybound themselves to accept no quarter andmade their wills; and as they knelt to receivethe sacrament for the last time before the altarin the chapel of the Hotel Dieu, the populationcf the town gazed on them with of the older men begged them to wait tillafter the spring sowing that they might join inthe expedition. But Daulac refused. He wantedboth the glory and the danger. The oldest ofhis comrades was thirty-one, the youngesttwenty-one. After a solemn farewell they embarked inseveral canoes, well supplied with arms andammunition, and presently entered the mouthof the Ottawa and went up that broad expansionof the river known as the Lake of the TwoMountains. The party had not been long gonefrom Montreal when some friendly Hurons andAlgonquins who stopped there learned of the. The Ottawa 113 expedition, and the wish seized them to share theadventure. They asked the governor for a letterrecommending them to Daulac, and he compliedso far as to write telling Daulac to accept orreject the reinforcement as he saw fit. So theIndians embarked and paddled in pursuit ofthe seventeen Frenchmen. Daulac and his companions had meanwhilepassed with difficulty the swift current at Carillon,and about May first they reached the more for-midable rapid called the Long Sault. The tumultof waters, foaming among ledges and bouldersbarred the way, and it was decided to fight theenemy at this place. Just below the rapid,where the forest sloped gently to the shore, stooda palisaded fort, the work of an Algonquin war-party, the previous autumn. It was among thebushes and stumps of the rough clearing madein constructing it, and consisted simply of acircle of small tree-trunks, that was alreadyruinous. But the Frenchmen took possessionof it, and made their
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