LESCARBOT AND CHAMPLAIN.
Evil reports of a churlish wilderness1, a pitiless climate, disease, misery2, and death, had heralded3 the arrival of De Monts. The outlay4 had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen. Poutrincourt, however, was still full of zeal5; and, though his private affairs urgently called for his presence in France, he resolved, at no small sacrifice, to go in person to Acadia. He had, moreover, a friend who proved an invaluable6 ally. This was Marc Lescarbot, "avocat en Parlement," who had been roughly handled by fortune, and was in the mood for such a venture, being desirous, as he tells us, "to fly from a corrupt7 world," in which he had just lost a lawsuit8. Unlike De Monts, Poutrincourt, and others of his associates, he was not within the pale of the noblesse, belonging to the class of "gens de robe," which stood at the head of the bourgeoisie, and which, in its higher grades, formed within itself a virtual nobility. Lescarbot was no common man,—not that his abundant gift of verse-making was likely to avail much in the woods of New France, nor yet his classic lore9, dashed with a little harmless pedantry10, born not of the man, but of the times; but his zeal, his good sense, the vigor11 of his understanding, and the breadth of his views, were as conspicuous13 as his quick wit and his lively fancy. One of the best, as well as earliest, records of the early settlement of North America is due to his pen; and it has been said, with a certain degree of truth, that he was no less able to build up a colony than to write its history. He professed14 himself a Catholic, but his Catholicity sat lightly on him; and he might have passed for one of those amphibious religionists who in the civil wars were called "Les Politiques."
De Monts and Poutrincourt bestirred themselves to find a priest, since the foes15 of the enterprise had been loud in lamentation16 that the spiritual welfare of the Indians had been slighted. But it was Holy Week. All the priests were, or professed to be, busy with exercises and confessions17, and not one could be found to undertake the mission of Acadia. They were more successful in engaging mechanics and laborers18 for the voyage. These were paid a portion of their wages in advance, and were sent in a body to Rochelle, consigned19 to two merchants of that port, members of the company. De Monts and Poutrincourt went thither20 by post. Lescarbot soon followed, and no sooner reached Rochelle than he penned and printed his Adieu a la France, a poem which gained for him some credit.
More serious matters awaited him, however, than this dalliance with the Muse21. Rochelle was the centre and citadel22 of Calvinism,—a town of austere23 and grim aspect, divided, like Cisatlantic communities of later growth, betwixt trade and religion, and, in the interest of both, exacting24 a deportment of discreet25 and well-ordered sobriety. "One must walk a strait path here," says Lescarbot, "unless he would hear from the mayor or the ministers." But the mechanics sent from Paris, flush of money, and lodged26 together in the quarter of St. Nicolas, made day and night hideous27 with riot, and their employers found not a few of them in the hands of the police. Their ship, bearing the inauspicious name of the "Jonas," lay anchored in the stream, her cargo28 on board, when a sudden gale29 blew her adrift. She struck on a pier30, then grounded on the flats, bilged, careened, and settled in the mud. Her captain, who was ashore31, with Poutrincourt, Lescarbot, and others, hastened aboard, and the pumps were set in motion; while all Rochelle, we are told, came to gaze from the ramparts, with faces of condolence, but at heart well pleased with the disaster. The ship and her cargo were saved, but she must be emptied, repaired, and reladen. Thus a month was lost; at length, on the thirteenth of May, 1606, the disorderly crew were all brought on board, and the "Jonas" put to sea. Poutrincourt and Lescarbot had charge of the expedition, De Monts remaining in France.
Lescarbot describes his emotions at finding himself on an element so deficient32 in solidity, with only a two-inch plank33 between him and death. Off the Azores, they spoke34 a supposed pirate. For the rest, they beguiled35 the voyage by harpooning36 porpoises37, dancing on deck in calm weather, and fishing for cod38 on the Grand Bank. They were two months on their way; and when, fevered with eagerness to reach land, they listened hourly for the welcome cry, they were involved in impenetrable fogs. Suddenly the mists parted, the sun shone forth39, and streamed fair and bright over the fresh hills and forests of the New World, in near view before them. But the black rocks lay between, lashed40 by the snow-white breakers. "Thus," writes Lescarbot, "doth a man sometimes seek the land as one doth his beloved, who sometimes repulseth her sweetheart very rudely. Finally, upon Saturday, the fifteenth of July, about two o'clock in the afternoon, the sky began to salute41 us as it were with cannon42-shots, shedding tears, as being sorry to have kept us so long in pain;... but, whilst we followed on our course, there came from the land odors incomparable for sweetness, brought with a warm wind so abundantly that all the Orient parts could not produce greater abundance. We did stretch out our hands as it were to take them, so palpable were they, which I have admired a thousand times since."
It was noon on the twenty-seventh when the "Jonas" passed the rocky gateway43 of Port Royal Basin, and Lescarbot gazed with delight and wonder on the calm expanse of sunny waters, with its amphitheatre of woody hills, wherein he saw the future asylum44 of distressed45 merit and impoverished46 industry. Slowly, before a favoring breeze, they held their course towards the head of the harbor, which narrowed as they advanced; but all was solitude47,—no moving sail, no sign of human presence. At length, on their left, nestling in deep forests, they saw the wooden walls and roofs of the infant colony. Then appeared a birch canoe, cautiously coming towards them, guided by an old Indian. Then a Frenchman, arquebuse in hand, came down to the shore; and then, from the wooden bastion, sprang the smoke of a saluting48 shot. The ship replied; the trumpets50 lent their voices to the din12, and the forests and the hills gave back unwonted echoes. The voyagers landed, and found the colony of Port Royal dwindled51 to two solitary52 Frenchmen.
These soon told their story. The preceding winter had been one of much suffering, though by no means the counterpart of the woful experience of St. Croix. But when the spring had passed, the summer far advanced, and still no tidings of De Monts had come, Pontgrave grew deeply anxious. To maintain themselves without supplies and succor54 was impossible. He caused two small vessels55 to be built, and set out in search of some of the French vessels on the fishing stations. This was but twelve days before the arrival of the ship "Jonas." Two men had bravely offered themselves to stay behind and guard the buildings, guns, and munitions57; and an old Indian chief, named Memberton, a fast friend of the French, and still a redoubted warrior58, we are told, though reputed to number more than a hundred years, proved a stanch59 ally. When the ship approached, the two guardians60 were at dinner in their room at the fort. Memberton, always on the watch, saw the advancing sail, and, shouting from the gate, roused them from their repast. In doubt who the new-comers might be, one ran to the shore with his gun, while the other repaired to the platform where four cannon were mounted, in the valorous resolve to show fight should the strangers prove to be enemies. Happily this redundancy of mettle61 proved needless. He saw the white flag fluttering at the masthead, and joyfully62 fired his pieces as a salute.
The voyagers landed, and eagerly surveyed their new home. Some wandered through the buildings; some visited the cluster of Indian wigwams hard by; some roamed in the forest and over the meadows that bordered the neighboring river. The deserted63 fort now swarmed64 with life; and, the better to celebrate their prosperous arrival, Poutrincourt placed a hogs-head of wine in the courtyard at the discretion65 of his followers66, whose hilarity67, in consequence, became exuberant68. Nor was it diminished when Pontgrave's vessels were seen entering the harbor. A boat sent by Pountrincourt, more than a week before, to explore the coasts, had met them near Cape69 Sable70, and they joyfully returned to Port Royal.
Pontgrave, however, soon sailed for France in the "Jonas," hoping on his way to seize certain contraband71 fur-traders, reported to be at Canseau and Cape Breton. Poutrincourt and Champlain, bent72 on finding a better site for their settlement in a more southern latitude73, set out on a voyage of discovery, in an ill-built vessel56 of eighteen tons, while Lescarbot remained in charge of Port Royal. They had little for their pains but danger, hardship, and mishap74. The autumn gales75 cut short their exploration; and, after visiting Gloucester Harbor, doubling Monoinoy Point, and advancing as far as the neighborhood of Hyannis, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, they turned back, somewhat disgusted with their errand. Along the eastern verge76 of Cape Cod they found the shore thickly studded with the wigwams of a race who were less hunters than tillers of the soil. At Chatham Harbor—called by them Port Fortune—five of the company, who, contrary to orders, had remained on shore all night, were assailed77, as they slept around their fire, by a shower of arrows from four hundred Indians. Two were killed outright78, while the survivors79 fled for their boat, bristling80 like porcupines81 with the feathered missiles,—a scene oddly portrayed82 by the untutored pencil of Champlain. He and Poutrincourt, with eight men, hearing the war-whoops and the cries for aid, sprang up from sleep, snatched their weapons, pulled ashore in their shirts, and charged the yelling multitude, who fled before their spectral83 assailants, and vanished in the woods. "Thus," observes Lescarbot, "did thirty-five thousand Midianites fly before Gideon and his three hundred." The French buried their dead comrades; but, as they chanted their funeral hymn84, the Indians, at a safe distance on a neighboring hill, were dancing in glee and triumph, and mocking them with unseemly gestures; and no sooner had the party re-embarked, than they dug up the dead bodies, burnt them, and arrayed themselves in their shirts. Little pleased with the country or its inhabitants, the voyagers turned their prow85 towards Port Royal, though not until, by a treacherous86 device, they had lured87 some of their late assailants within their reach, killed them, and cut off their heads as trophies88. Near Mount Desert, on a stormy night, their rudder broke, and they had a hair-breadth escape from destruction. The chief object of their voyage, that of discovering a site for their colony under a more southern sky, had failed. Pontgrave's son had his hand blown off by the bursting of his gun; several of their number had been killed; others were sick or wounded; and thus, on the fourteenth of November, with somewhat downcast visages, they guided their helpless vessel with a pair of oars89 to the landing at Port Royal.
"I will not," says Lescarbot, "compare their perils90 to those of Ulysses, nor yet of Aeneas, lest thereby91 I should sully our holy enterprise with things impure92."
He and his followers had been expecting them with great anxiety. His alert and buoyant spirit had conceived a plan for enlivening the courage of the company, a little dashed of late by misgivings93 and forebodings. Accordingly, as Poutrincourt, Champlain, and their weather-beaten crew approached the wooden gateway of Port Royal, Neptune94 issued forth, followed by his tritons, who greeted the voyagers in good French verse, written in all haste for the occasion by Lescarbot. And, as they entered, they beheld95, blazoned96 over the arch, the arms of Prance97, circled with laurels98, and flanked by the scuteheons of De Monts and Poutrincourt.
The ingenious author of these devices had busied himself, during the absence of his associates, in more serious labors99 for the welfare of the colony. He explored the low borders of the river Equille, or Annapolis. Here, in the solitude, he saw great meadows, where the moose, with their young, were grazing, and where at times the rank grass was beaten to a pulp100 by the trampling101 of their hoofs102. He burned the grass, and sowed crops of wheat, rye, and barley103 in its stead. His appearance gave so little promise of personal vigor, that some of the party assured him that he would never see France again, and warned him to husband his strength; but he knew himself better, and set at naught104 these comforting monitions. He was the most diligent105 of workers. He made gardens near the fort, where, in his zeal, he plied49 the hoe with his own hands late into the moonlight evenings. The priests, of whom at the outset there had been no lack, had all succumbed106 to the scurvy107 at St. Croix; and Lescarbot, so far as a layman108 might, essayed to supply their place, reading on Sundays from the Scriptures109, and adding expositions of his own after a fashion not remarkable110 for rigorous Catholicity. Of an evening, when not engrossed111 with his garden, he was reading or writing in his room, perhaps preparing the material of that History of New France in which, despite the versatility112 of his busy brain, his good sense and capacity are clearly made manifest.
Now, however, when the whole company were reassembled, Lescarbot found associates more congenial than the rude soldiers, mechanics, and laborers who gathered at night around the blazing logs in their rude hall. Port Royal was a quadrangle of wooden buildings, enclosing a spacious113 court. At the southeast corner was the arched gateway, whence a path, a few paces in length, led to the water. It was flanked by a sort of bastion of palisades, while at the southwest corner was another bastion, on which four cannon were mounted. On the east side of the quadrangle was a range of magazines and storehouses; on the west were quarters for the men; on the north, a dining-hall and lodgings114 for the principal persons of the company; while on the south, or water side, were the kitchen, the forge, and the oven. Except the Garden-patches and the cemetery115, the adjacent ground was thickly studded with the Stumps116 of the newly felled trees.
Most bountiful provision had been made for the temporal wants of the colonists117, and Lescarbot is profuse118 in praise of the liberality of Du Monte and two merchants of Rochelle, who had freighted the ship "Jonas." Of wine, in particular, the supply was so generous, that every man in Port Royal was served with three pints119 daily.
The principal persons of the colony sat, fifteen in number, at Poutrincourt's table, which, by an ingenious device of Champlain, was always well furnished. He formed the fifteen into a new order, christened "L'Ordre de Bon-Temps." Each was Grand Master in turn, holding office for one day. It was his function to cater120 for the company; and, as it became a point of honor to fill the post with credit, the prospective121 Grand Master was usually busy, for several days before coming to his dignity, in hunting, fishing, or bartering122 provisions with the Indians. Thus did Poutrincourt's table groan123 beneath all the luxuries of the winter forest,—flesh of moose, caribou124, and deer, beaver125, otter126, and hare, bears and wild-cats; with ducks, geese, grouse127, and plover128; sturgeon, too, and trout129, and fish innumerable, speared through the ice of the Equille, or drawn130 from the depths of the neighboring bay. "And," says Lescarbot, in closing his bill of fare, "whatever our gourmands131 at home may think, we found as good cheer at Port Royal as they at their Rue132 aux Ours in Paris, and that, too, at a cheaper rate." For the preparation of this manifold provision, the Grand Master was also answerable; since, during his day of office, he was autocrat133 of the kitchen.
Nor did this bounteous134 repast lack a solemn and befitting ceremonial. When the hour had struck, after the manner of our fathers they dined at noon, the Grand Master entered the hall, a napkin on his shoulder, his staff of office in his hand, and the collar of the Order—valued by Lescarbot at four crowns—about his neck. The brotherhood135 followed, each bearing a dish. The invited guests were Indian chiefs, of whom old Memberton was daily present, seated at table with the French, who took pleasure in this red-skin companionship. Those of humbler degree, warriors136, squaws, and children, sat on the floor, or crouched137 together in the corners of the hall, eagerly waiting their portion of biscuit or of bread, a novel and much coveted138 luxury. Being always treated with kindness, they became fond of the French, who often followed them on their moose-hunts, and shared their winter bivouac.
At the evening meal there was less of form and circumstance; and when the winter night closed in, when the flame crackled and the sparks streamed up the wide-throated chimney, and the founders139 of New France with their tawny140 allies were gathered around the blaze, then did the Grand Master resign the collar and the staff to the successor of his honors, and, with jovial141 courtesy, pledge him in a cup of wine. Thus these ingenious Frenchmen beguiled the winter of their exile.
It was an unusually mild winter. Until January, they wore no warmer garment than their doublets. They made hunting and fishing parties, in which the Indians, whose lodges142 were always to be seen under the friendly shelter of the buildings, failed not to bear part. "I remember," says Lescarbot, "that on the fourteenth of January, of a Sunday afternoon, we amused ourselves with singing and music on the river Equille; and that in the same month we went to see the wheat-fields two leagues from the fort, and dined merrily in the sunshine."
Good spirits and good cheer saved them in great measure from the scurvy; and though towards the end of winter severe cold set in, yet only four men died. The snow thawed143 at last, and as patches of the black and oozy144 soil began to appear, they saw the grain of their last autumn's sowing already piercing the mould. The forced inaction of the winter was over. The carpenters built a water-mill on the stream now called Allen's River; others enclosed fields and laid out gardens; others, again, with scoop-nets and baskets, caught the herrings and alewives as they ran up the innumerable rivulets145. The leaders of the colony set a contagious146 example of activity. Poutrincourt forgot the prejudices of his noble birth, and went himself into the woods to gather turpentine from the pines, which he converted into tar53 by a process of his own invention; while Lescarbot, eager to test the qualities of the soil, was again, hoe in hand, at work all day in his garden.
All seemed full of promise; but alas147 for the bright hope that kindled148 the manly149 heart of Champlain and the earnest spirit of the vivacions advocate! A sudden blight150 fell on them, and their rising prosperity withered151 to the ground. On a morning, late in spring, as the French were at breakfast, the ever watchful152 Membertou came in with news of an approaching sail. They hastened to the shore; but the vision of the centenarian sagamore put them all to shame. They could see nothing. At length their doubts were resolved. A small vessel stood on towards them, and anchored before the fort. She was commanded by one Chevalier, a young man from St. Malo, and was freighted with disastrous153 tidings. Dc Monts's monopoly was rescinded154. The life of the enterprise was stopped, and the establishment at Port Royal could no longer be supported; for its expense was great, the body of the colony being laborers in the pay of the company. Nor was the annulling155 of the patent the full extent of the disaster; for, during the last summer, the Dutch had found their way to the St. Lawrence, and carried away a rich harvest of furs, while other interloping traders had plied a busy traffic along the coasts, and, in the excess of their avidity, dug up the bodies of buried Indians to rob them of their funeral robes.
It was to the merchants and fishermen of the Norman, Breton, and Biscayan ports, exasperated156 at their exclusion157 from a lucrative158 trade, and at the confiscations which had sometimes followed their attempts to engage in it, that this sudden blow was due. Money had been used freely at court, and the monopoly, unjustly granted, had been more unjustly withdrawn159. De Monts and his company, who had spent a hundred thousand livres, were allowed six thousand in requital160, to be collected, if possible, from the fur-traders in the form of a tax.
Chevalier, captain of the ill-omened bark, was entertained with a hospitality little deserved, since, having been intrusted with sundry161 hams, fruits, spices, sweetmeats, jellies, and other dainties, sent by the generous De Monts to his friends of New France, he with his crew had devoured162 them on the voyage, alleging163 that, in their belief, the inmates164 of Port Royal would all be dead before their arrival.
Choice there was none, and Port Royal must be abandoned. Built on a false basis, sustained only by the fleeting165 favor of a government, the generous enterprise had come to naught. Yet Poutrincourt, who in virtue166 of his grant from De Monts owned the place, bravely resolved that, come what might, he would see the adventure to an end, even should it involve emigration with his family to the wilderness. Meanwhile, he began the dreary167 task of abandonment, sending boat-loads of men and stores to Canseau, where lay the ship "Jonas," eking168 out her diminished profits by fishing for cod.
Membertou was full of grief at the departure of his friends. He had built a palisaded village not far from Port Royal, and here were mustered169 some four hundred of his warriors for a foray into the country of the Armouchiquois, dwellers170 along the coasts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Western Maine. One of his tribesmen had been killed by a chief from the Saco, and he was bent on revenge. He proved himself a sturdy beggar, pursuing Pontrincourt with daily petitions,—now for a bushel of beans, now for a basket of bread, and now for a barrel of wine to regale171 his greasy172 crew. Memberton's long life had not been one of repose173. In deeds of blood and treachery he had no rival in the Acadian forest; and, as his old age was beset174 with enemies, his alliance with the French had a foundation of policy no less than of affection. In right of his rank of Sagamore, he claimed perfect equality both with Poutrincourt and with the King, laying his shrivelled forefingers175 together in token of friendship between peers. Calumny176 did not spare him; and a rival chief intimated to the French, that, under cover of a war with the Armouchiquois, the crafty177 veteran meant to seize and plunder178 Port Royal. Precautions, therefore, were taken; but they were seemingly needless; for, their feasts and dances over, the warriors launched their birchen flotilla and set out. After an absence of six weeks they reappeared with howls of victory, and their exploits were commemorated179 in French verse by the muse of the indefatigable180 Lescarbot.
With a heavy heart the advocate bade farewell to the dwellings181, the cornfields, the gardens, and all the dawning prosperity of Port Royal, and sailed for Canseau in a small vessel on the thirtieth of July. Pontrincourt and Champlain remained behind, for the former was resolved to learn before his departure the results of his agricultural labors. Reaching a harbor on the southern coast of Nova Scotia, six leagues west of Cansean, Lescarbot found a fishing-vessel commanded and owned by an old Basque, named Savalet, who for forty-two successive years had carried to France his annual cargo of codfish. He was in great glee at the success of his present venture, reckoning his profits at ten thousand francs. The Indians, however, annoyed him beyond measure, boarding him from their canoes as his fishing-boats came alongside, and helping182 themselves at will to his halibut and cod. At Cansean—a harbor near the strait now bearing the name—the ship Jonas still lay, her hold well stored with fish; and here, on the twenty-seventh of August, Lescarbot was rejoined by Poutrincourt and Champlain, who had come from Port Royal in an open boat. For a few days, they amused themselves with gathering183 raspberries on the islands; then they spread their sails for France, and early in October, 1607, anchored in the harbor of St. Malo.
First of Europeans, they had essayed to found an agricultural colony in the New World. The leaders of the enterprise had acted less as merchants than as citizens; and the fur-trading monopoly, odious184 in itself, had been used as the instrument of a large and generous design. There was a radical185 defect, however, in their scheme of settlement. Excepting a few of the leaders, those engaged in it had not chosen a home in the wilderness of New France, but were mere186 hirelings, without wives or families, and careless of the welfare of the colony. The life which should have pervaded187 all the members was confined to the heads alone. In one respect, however, the enterprise of De Monts was truer in principle than the Roman Catholic colonization188 of Canada, on the one hand, or the Puritan colonization of Massachusetts, on the other, for it did not attempt to enforce religions exclusion.
Towards the fickle189 and bloodthirsty race who claimed the lordship of the forests, these colonists, excepting only in the treacherous slaughter190 at Port Fortune, bore themselves in a spirit of kindness contrasting brightly with the rapacious191 cruelty of the Spaniards and the harshness of the English settlers. When the last boat-load left Port Royal, the shore resounded192 with lamentation; and nothing could console the afflicted193 savages194 but reiterated195 promises of a speedy return.
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