. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. t. He had not he had made one important gain. His valor hadreestablished the confidence of the Indians so thatwhen they went on a free-booting expedition againstthe whites of the Dutch settlements at Orange (Albany),Radisson was taken with them. Orange, or Albany,consisted at that time of some fifty thatched log-housessurrounded by a settlement of perhaps a hundredand fifty farmers. This raid was bloodless. Thewarriors looted the farmers cabins, emptied their cup-bo
. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. t. He had not he had made one important gain. His valor hadreestablished the confidence of the Indians so thatwhen they went on a free-booting expedition againstthe whites of the Dutch settlements at Orange (Albany),Radisson was taken with them. Orange, or Albany,consisted at that time of some fifty thatched log-housessurrounded by a settlement of perhaps a hundredand fifty farmers. This raid was bloodless. Thewarriors looted the farmers cabins, emptied their cup-boards, and drank their beer cellars dry to the lastdrop. Once more Radisson kept his head. Whilethe braves entered Fort Orange roaring drunk, Radis-son was alert and sober. A drunk Indian falls an easy RADISSONS FIRST VOYAGE 37 prey in the bartering of pelts. The Iroquois wantedguns. The Dutch wanted pelts. The whites treatedthe savages like kings; and the Mohawks marchedfrom house to house feasting of the best. Radissonwas dressed in garnished buckskin and had beenpainted like a Mohawk. Suspecting some design to. The Battery, New York, in Radissons Time. escape, his Iroquois friends never left him. Theyoung Frenchman now saw white men for the firsttime in almost two years ; but the speech that heheard was in a strange tongue. As Radisson wentinto the fort, he noticed a soldier among the the same instant the soldier recognized him as aFrenchman, and oblivious of the Mohawks presence 38 PATHFINDERS OF THE WEST blurted out his discovery in Iroquois dialect, vowingthat for all the paint and grease, this youth was a whiteman below. The fellows blundering might havecost Radissons life; but the youth had not been acaptive among crafty Mohawks for nothing. Radis-son feigned surprise at the accusation. That quietedthe Mohawk suspicions and they were presently deep inthe beer pots of the Dutch. Again the soldier spoke,this time in French. It was the first time that Radis-son had
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