The picturesque StLawrence . shoul-ders. Then they set up a despairing wail, buthappily the ice was driven against the northernshore and they got safely to land. They wereworn to skeletons and nearly famished. Foodgiven them by the French was devoured withfrenzied avidity, and then, still unappeased, theytook possession of a dead dog that Champlainhad left on the snow as a bait for foxes. Theybroke this carrion into fragments, and thawedand devoured it. Such famine conditions werenot unusual among the Algonquins of the lowerSt. Lawrence, for they never tilled the soil andmade no adequate provi
The picturesque StLawrence . shoul-ders. Then they set up a despairing wail, buthappily the ice was driven against the northernshore and they got safely to land. They wereworn to skeletons and nearly famished. Foodgiven them by the French was devoured withfrenzied avidity, and then, still unappeased, theytook possession of a dead dog that Champlainhad left on the snow as a bait for foxes. Theybroke this carrion into fragments, and thawedand devoured it. Such famine conditions werenot unusual among the Algonquins of the lowerSt. Lawrence, for they never tilled the soil andmade no adequate provision against a time ofneed. Toward the end of winter scurvy broke outwith virulence among the French, and by themiddle of May there were only eight was back from across the Atlanticthe next month, and it was agreed that Cham-plain, whose health and courage had remainedunshaken, should set out to find a way to a means of furthering this enterprise, he hadalready made an alliance with the Canadian. On St. Irtincts at Sherhrooki Quebec^s Eventful History i6i Indians and had agreed to join them in an ex-pedition against their enemies, the Iroquois, whodwelt in fortified villages within the limits of thepresent state of New York. So in the earlysummer of 1609 the Hurons and Algonquinsresorted to Quebec, pitched their camps andbedecked themselves for a war-dance. Thedance occurred in the evening. Plenty of woodhad been collected for the fires which blazedbrightly and lighted the gloomy face of thecliff, and the glare fell full on the tawny limbsand painted visages of the dancers and onbrandishing war-clubs and tomahawks, while thedrum kept up its hollow boom, and the airresounded with yells. A feast followed, and thenext day the allies embarked to proceed againstthe Iroquois by way of the river Richelieu. The expedition was successful from theIndian point of view; for a war-party of theenemy was defeated and the invaders safely re-treated. As for Ch
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