The Conquest of the Great Northwest: Being the Story of the Adventurers of England Known as the Hudson's Bay Company. New Pages in the History of Canadian Northwest and the Western States, Том 1Musson Book Company, 1908 - 415 стор. |
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The Conquest of the Great Northwest: Being the Story of the ..., Том 1 Agnes C. Laut Повний перегляд - 1908 |
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Adventurers Albany anchored ashore Assiniboines Athabasca beaver Bridgar camp Canadian cannon canoes Captain Gillam captured cargo Carterett Charlton Island charter Chevalier de Troyes Chouart Churchill coast Company's court crew death decks Discovery dividends Dutch east England English Eskimo explored fire forts France French Frenchmen frigate fur traders Gillam governor Greenland guns Half Moon harbor Hayes River Hearne Hendry Hudson Hudson Straits Hudson's Bay Company Hudson's Bay House hundred miles hunting Iberville Iberville's ice floes icepan Indians Juet Kelsey King Lake land London mate Monsieur Moose Munck mutineers night Nor'Westers North overland passage Péré pirate Pole Port Nelson Prickett Prince Rupert prisoners Quebec Radisson Radisson and Groseillers raid raiders records Rupert River Sable Island sailors sails Sargeant Saskatchewan sent servants ship ship's shore Sir James Hayes Smithsend South Sea Straits swamp tide trade vessels voyage wind winter wreck York
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Сторінка 44 - ... enough to load three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread...
Сторінка 120 - London ; have, at their own great cost and charges, undertaken an expedition for Hudson's Bay, in the north-west part of America, for the discovery of a new passage into the South Sea, and for the finding some trade for furs, minerals and other considerable commodities...
Сторінка 87 - INASMUCH as I have now no more hope of life in this world, I request, for the sake of God, if any Christian men should happen to come here, that they will bury in the earth my poor body, together with the others which are found here, expecting their reward from God in Heaven : and, furthermore, that this my journal may be forwarded to my most gracious Lord and King (for every word that is; found...
Сторінка 120 - AND WHEREAS the said Undertakers, for their further encouragement in the said design, have humbly besought us to incorporate them, and grant unto them and their successors the...
Сторінка 351 - Pas. Nine Frenchmen were in possession, and the trick was repeated. "The Indians are all drunk," deplores Hendry, "but the master was very kind to me. He is dressed very genteel but his men wear nothing but drawers and striped cotton shirts ruffled at the hand and breast. This house has been long a place of trade and is named Basquia. It is twenty-six feet long, twelve wide, nine high, having a sloping roof, the walls log on log, the top covered with willows, and divided into three rooms, one for...
Сторінка 54 - ... warning to keep at a distance from these masses, to prevent the ship from being crushed by them. He encountered a severe storm, which brought the ice so thick about the ship, that he judged it best to run her among the largest masses, and there let her lie. In this situation, says the journalist, "some of our men fell sick ; I will not say it was of fear, although I saw small sign of other grief.
Сторінка 44 - ... wooden bowls; two men were also despatched at once with bows and arrows in quest of game, who soon after brought in a pair of pigeons which they had shot. They likewise killed a fat dog, and skinned it with great haste, with shells which they had got out of the water. They supposed that I would remain with them for the night, but I returned after a short time on board the ship. The land is the finest for cultivation that I ever in my life set foot upon, and it also abounds in trees of every description.
Сторінка 66 - Death lines her shores with the bodies of the dead? Also, the Indians told Radisson childish fables of a ' ship with sails ' having come to the bay; but many ships came in those fifty years: Button's to hunt in vain for Hudson ; Munck, the Dane's, to meet a fate worse than Hudson's. " Hudson's shallop went down to as utter silence as the watery graves of those old sea Vikings who rode out to meet death on the billow. A famous painting represents Hudson huddled panic-stricken with his child and the...
Сторінка 346 - ... came to 200 tents of Archithinue Natives, pitched in two rows, and an opening in the middle; where we were conducted to the Leader's tent; which was at one end, large enough to contain fifty persons; where he received us seated on a clear (white) Buffalo skin, attended by 20 elderly men. He made signs for me to sit down on his right hand: which I did. Our Leader set on several grand-pipes, and smoked all round, according to their usual custom: not a word was yet spoke on either side. Smoking...