The Legends of the St. Lawrence; Told During a Cruise of the Yatch [!] Hirondelle from Montreal to Gaspe (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... Chap. V The Rappel Of The French Dead In Chaklottetown, P. Ed. I. Off Kamouraska, September. 189--"A quiet shady place. A nook apart from traffic's toil and moil; Of fresh green pastures on a fertile soil, Well clothed with wealth of woods, by nature's beauty And known as Hernnwood all throughout the country."--Emigration of the Fairies. Lt.-VolJohn Hunter Duvir) "That Granville tale, Commodore, is prime, retorted Mac of the Isles; it brings one back so vividly to that delightful period in French history, when the king to gratify the private revenge of pimp or paramour, in his royal clemency, furnished Lettus de cachet, to immure for life, within the grim dungeons of the Bastille a hated rival in love or in ambition." But who will be the next contributor to the legendary log of the Hirondelle? Wind and tide favor us, suppose we cross over to our Canadian Brighton--Murray Bay, saunter round the Nairne and Fraser settlements of 1762, and pick up some stray threads of their battle and siege traditions, of their warlike Highland followers: the Black, burns, Warrens, McLeans, McNicols, McNeils. Harveys--transmogrified now into thorough Jean-Baptistes speaking no other language than the French."--" I protest," sung out the sporting Commodore against having any more sea or land tales at present' If there is a thing sacred to an Englishman, or I may say, to a British subject, it is his dinner. Let us then go through this performance, like real Britons." Instanter, the commodore and his sympathetic guests, like he of Pinafore, "'went below";the helm was entrusted to old Carleton, the sailing-master; and merrily the yateh sailed along. An hour or two later, the Hirondelle was safely moored to the pier, at Pointe dPic, where a very pleasant surprise awaited the Antiqu...