. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. blankets and ammunition were aniuially and doled out to them by their new masters. The\-readilj^ took arms, in 1S12, to help De Salaberrj and Brockiu the war against the United States. The Huron village of Lorette is still an unfailing suli-ject of interest to all curious travellers visiting the AncientCapital, though there are sca
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. blankets and ammunition were aniuially and doled out to them by their new masters. The\-readilj^ took arms, in 1S12, to help De Salaberrj and Brockiu the war against the United States. The Huron village of Lorette is still an unfailing suli-ject of interest to all curious travellers visiting the AncientCapital, though there are scarcely any inhabitants there ofpure Indian blood. It is still what the historian Frs. Parkman found it,when he paid it a memorable visit: a wild spot coveredwith the primitive forest and seamed by a deep and tor-tuous ravine, where the St. Charles foams, white as a snow-drift : over the black ledges and where the sunshine strug-gles through matted boughs of the pine and the fir, to baskfor brief moments on the mossy rocks or flash on the hurrying to this day, the tourists find the remnants of a lost people, harm-less weavers of baskets and sewers of moccassins. the Huron bloodfast bleaching out of them. ;DIERE F.\, near 79 LBGBND OF THB GREAT SERPENT. Specially wrilteu for Illustrated Quebec, by J. M. Lemoine, Indian Lorette, like other noted Canadian villages, lias its legend of old ; its Sachems have carefullypreserved it and handed it down with embellishments to the budding papooses : Haouroukai, an exemplary and elderly Christian of the tribe, whilst dozing under a pine, on thebanks of the St. Charles, had been favored with the vision of a radiant lady in scarlet silk : She hadapprized him that his end was near, when he would for ever be admitted in the happy hunting grounds ofparadise ; twas Our Lady of Loretto, the patroness of the village, who had vouchsafed him conso-latory tidings. Other redskins had .sought, but without any
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