CHAMPLAIN AT QUEBEC.
A LONELY ship sailed up the St. Lawrence. The white whales floundering in the Bay of Tadoussac, and the wild duck diving as the foaming1 prow2 drew near,—there was no life but these in all that watery3 solitude4, twenty miles from shore to shore. The ship was from Honfleur, and was commanded by Samuel de Champlain. He was the AEneas of a destined5 people, and in her womb lay the embryo6 life of Canada.
De Monts, after his exclusive privilege of trade was revoked7 and his Acadian enterprise ruined, had, as we have seen, abandoned it to Poutrincourt. Perhaps would it have been well for him had he abandoned with it all Transatlantic enterprises; but the passion for discovery and the noble ambition of founding colonies had taken possession of his mind. These, rather than a mere9 hope of gain, seem to have been his controlling motives10; yet the profits of the fur-trade were vital to the new designs he was meditating11, to meet the heavy outlay12 they demanded, and he solicited13 and obtained a fresh monopoly of the traffic for one year.
Champlain was, at the time, in Paris; but his unquiet thoughts turned westward14. He was enamoured of the New World, whose rugged15 charms had seized his fancy and his heart; and as explorers of Arctic seas have pined in their repose16 for polar ice and snow, so did his restless thoughts revert17 to the fog-wrapped coasts, the piny odors of forests, the noise of waters, the sharp and piercing sunlight, so dear to his remembrance. He longed to unveil the mystery of that boundless18 wilderness19, and plant the Catholic faith and the power of France amid its ancient barbarism.
Five years before, he had explored the St. Lawrence as far as the rapids above Montreal. On its banks, as he thought, was the true site for a settlement,—a fortified20 post, whence, as from a secure basis, the waters of the vast interior might be traced back towards their sources, and a western route discovered to China and Japan. For the fur-trade, too, the innumerable streams that descended21 to the great river might all be closed against foreign intrusion by a single fort at some commanding point, and made tributary22 to a rich and permanent commerce; while—and this was nearer to his heart, for he had often been heard to say that the saving of a soul was worth more than the conquest of an empire—countless23 savage24 tribes, in the bondage25 of Satan, might by the same avenues be reached and redeemed26.
De Monts embraced his views; and, fitting out two ships, gave command of one to the elder Pontgrave, of the other to Champlain. The former was to trade with the Indians and bring back the cargo27 of furs which, it was hoped, would meet the expense of the voyage. To Champlain fell the harder task of settlement and exploration.
Pontgrave, laden28 with goods for the Indian trade of Tadoussac sailed from Honfleur on the fifth of April, 1608. Champlain, with men, arms, and stores for the colony, followed, eight days later. On the fifteenth of May he was on the Grand Bank; on the thirtieth he passed Gaspe, and on the third of June neared Tadoussac. No living thing was to be seen. He anchored, lowered a boat, and rowed into the port, round the rocky point at the southeast, then, from the fury of its winds and currents, called La Pointe de Tous les Diables. There was life enough within, and more than he cared to find. In the still anchorage under the cliffs lay Pontgrave's vessel29, and at her side another ship, which proved to be a Basque furtrader.
Poutgrave, arriving a few days before, had found himself anticipated by the Basques, who were busied in a brisk trade with bands of Indians cabined along the borders of the cove8. He displayed the royal letters, and commanded a cessation of the prohibited traffic; but the Basques proved refractory30, declared that they would trade in spite of the King, fired on Pontgrave with cannon31 and musketry, wounded him and two of his men, and killed a third. They then boarded his vessel, and carried away all his cannon, small arms, and ammunition32, saying that they would restore them when they had finished their trade and were ready to return home.
Champlain found his comrade on shore, in a disabled condition. The Basques, though still strong enough to make fight, were alarmed for the consequences of their conduct, and anxious to come to terms. A peace, therefore, was signed on board their vessel; all differences were referred to the judgment33 of the French courts, harmony was restored, and the choleric34 strangers betook themselves to catching35 whales.
This port of Tadoussac was long the centre of the Canadian fur-trade. A desolation of barren mountains closes round it, betwixt whose ribs36 of rugged granite37, bristling38 with savins, birches, and firs, the Saguenay rolls its gloomy waters from the northern wilderness. Centuries of civilization have not tamed the wildness of the place; and still, in grim repose, the mountains hold their guard around the waveless lake that glistens39 in their shadow, and doubles, in its sullen40 mirror, crag, precipice41, and forest.
Near the brink42 of the cove or harbor where the vessels43 lay, and a little below the mouth of a brook44 which formed one of the outlets45 of this small lake, stood the remains46 of the wooden barrack built by Chauvin eight years before. Above the brook were the lodges47 of an Indian camp,—stacks of poles covered with birch-bark. They belonged to an Algonquin horde48, called Montagnais, denizens49 of surrounding wilds, and gatherers of their only harvest,—skins of the moose, caribou50, and bear; fur of the beaver51, marten, otter52, fox, wild-cat, and lynx. Nor was this all, for there were intermediate traders betwixt the French and the shivering bands who roamed the weary stretch of stunted53 forest between the head-waters of the Saguenay and Hudson's Bay. Indefatigable54 canoe-men, in their birchen vessels, light as eggshells, they threaded the devious55 tracks of countless rippling56 streams, shady by-ways of the forest, where the wild duck scarcely finds depth to swim; then descended to their mart along those scenes of picturesque57 yet dreary58 grandeur59 which steam has made familiar to modern tourists. With slowly moving paddles they glided60 beneath the cliff whose shaggy brows frown across the zenith, and whose base the deep waves wash with a hoarse61 and hollow cadence62; and they passed the sepulchral63 Bay of the Trinity, dark as the tide of Acheron,—a sanctuary64 of solitude and silence: depths which, as the fable65 runs, no sounding line can fathom66, and heights at whose dizzy verge67 the wheeling eagle seems a speck68.
Peace being established with the Basques, and the wounded Pontgrave busied, as far as might be, in transferring to the hold of his ship the rich lading of the Indian canoes, Champlain spread his sails, and again held his course up the St. Lawrence. Far to the south, in sun and shadow, slumbered69 the woody mountains whence fell the countless springs of the St. John, behind tenantless70 shores, now white with glimmering71 villages,—La Chenaic, Granville, Kamouraska, St. Roche, St. Jean, Vincelot, Berthier. But on the north the jealous wilderness still asserts its sway, crowding to the river's verge its walls, domes72, and towers of granite; and, to this hour, its solitude is scarcely broken.
Above the point of the Island of Orleans, a constriction73 of the vast channel narrows it to less than a mile, with the green heights of Point Levi on one side, and on the other the cliffs of Quebec. Here, a small stream, the St. Charles, enters the St. Lawrence, and in the angle betwixt them rises the promontory74 on two sides a natural fortress75. Between the cliffs and the river lay a strand76 covered with walnuts77 and other trees. From this strand, by a rough passage gullied downward from the place where Prescott Gate now guards the way, one might climb the height to the broken plateau above, now burdened with its ponderous78 load of churches, convents, dwellings79, ramparts, and batteries. Thence, by a gradual ascent80, the rock sloped upward to its highest summit, Cape81 Diamond, looking down on the St. Lawrence from a height of three hundred and fifty feet. Here the citadel82 now stands; then the fierce sun fell on the bald, baking rock, with its crisped mosses83 and parched84 lichens85. Two centuries and a half have quickened the solitude with swarming86 life, covered the deep bosom87 of the river with barge88 and steamer and gliding89 sail, and reared cities and villages on the site of forests; but nothing can destroy the surpassing grandeur of the scene.
On the strand between the water and the cliffs Champlain's axemen fell to their work. They were pioneers of an advancing host,—advancing, it is true, with feeble and uncertain progress,—priests, soldiers, peasants, feudal90 scutcheons, royal insignia: not the Middle Age, but engendered91 of it by the stronger life of modern centralization, sharply stamped with a parental92 likeness93, heir to parental weakness and parental force.
In a few weeks a pile of wooden buildings rose on the brink of the St. Lawrence, on or near the site of the marketplace of the Lower Town of Quebec. The pencil of Champlain, always regardless of proportion and perspective, has preserved its likeness. A strong wooden wall, surmounted94 by a gallery loop-holed for musketry, enclosed three buildings, containing quarters for himself and his men, together with a courtyard, from one side of which rose a tall dove-cot, like a belfry. A moat surrounded the whole, and two or three small cannon were planted on salient platforms towards the river. There was a large storehouse near at hand, and a part of the adjacent ground was laid out as a garden.
In this garden Champlain was one morning directing his laborers95, when Tetu, his pilot, approached him with an anxious countenance96, and muttered a request to speak with him in private. Champlain assenting97, they withdrew to the neighboring woods, when the pilot disburdened himself of his secret. One Antoine Natel, a locksmith, smitten98 by conscience or fear, had revealed to him a conspiracy99 to murder his commander and deliver Quebec into the hands of the Basques and Spaniards then at Tadoussac. Another locksmith, named Duval, was author of the plot, and, with the aid of three accomplices100, had befooled or frightened nearly all the company into taking part in it. Each was assured that he should make his fortune, and all were mutually pledged to poniard the first betrayer of the secret. The critical point of their enterprise was the killing101 of Champlain. Some were for strangling him, some for raising a false alarm in the night and shooting him as he came out from his quarters.
Having heard the pilot's story, Champlain, remaining in the woods, desired his informant to find Antoine Natel, and bring him to the spot. Natel soon appeared, trembling with excitement and fear, and a close examination left no doubt of the truth of his statement. A small vessel, built by Pontgrave at Tadoussac, had lately arrived, and orders were now given that it should anchor close at hand. On board was a young man in whom confidence could be placed. Champlain sent him two bottles of wine, with a direction to tell the four ringleaders that they had been given him by his Basque friends at Tadoussac, and to invite them to share the good cheer. They came aboard in the evening, and were seized and secured. "Voyla done mes galants bien estonnez," writes Champlain.
It was ten o'clock, and most of the men on shore were asleep. They were wakened suddenly, and told of the discovery of the plot and the arrest of the ringleaders. Pardon was then promised them, and they were dismissed again to their beds, greatly relieved; for they had lived in trepidation102, each fearing the other. Duval's body, swinging from a gibbet, gave wholesome103 warning to those he had seduced104; and his head was displayed on a pike, from the highest roof of the buildings, food for birds and a lesson to sedition105. His three accomplices were carried by Pontgrave to France, where they made their atonement in the galleys106.
It was on the eighteenth of September that Pontgrave set sail, leaving Champlain with twenty-eight men to hold Quebec through the winter. Three weeks later, and shores and hills glowed with gay prognostics of approaching desolation,—the yellow and scarlet107 of the maples109, the deep purple of the ash, the garnet hue110 of young oaks, the crimson111 of the tupelo at the water's edge, and the golden plumage of birch saplings in the fissures112 of the cliff. It was a short-lived beauty. The forest dropped its festal robes. Shrivelled and faded, they rustled113 to the earth. The crystal air and laughing sun of October passed away, and November sank upon the shivering waste, chill and sombre as the tomb.
A roving band of Montagnais had built their huts near the buildings, and were busying themselves with their autumn eel-fishery, on which they greatly relied to sustain their miserable114 lives through the winter. Their slimy harvest being gathered, and duly smoked and dried, they gave it for safe-keeping to Champlain, and set out to hunt beavers115. It was deep in the winter before they came back, reclaimed116 their eels117, built their birch cabins again, and disposed themselves for a life of ease, until famine or their enemies should put an end to their enjoyments118. These were by no means without alloy119. While, gorged120 with food, they lay dozing121 on piles of branches in their smoky huts, where, through the crevices122 of the thin birch bark, streamed in a cold capable at times of congealing123 mercury, their slumbers124 were beset125 with nightmare visions of Iroquois forays, scalpings, butcherings, and burnings. As dreams were their oracles126, the camp was wild with fright. They sent out no scouts127 and placed no guard; but, with each repetition of these nocturnal terrors, they came flocking in a body to beg admission within the fort. The women and children were allowed to enter the yard and remain during the night, while anxious fathers and jealous husbands shivered in the darkness without.
On one occasion, a group of wretched beings was seen on the farther bank of the St. Lawrence, like wild animals driven by famine to the borders of the settler's clearing. The river was full of drifting ice, and there was no crossing without risk of life. The Indians, in their desperation, made the attempt; and midway their canoes were ground to atoms among the tossing masses. Agile128 as wild-cats, they all leaped upon a huge raft of ice, the squaws carrying their children on their shoulders, a feat129 at which Champlain marveled when he saw their starved and emaciated130 condition. Here they began a wail131 of despair; when happily the pressure of other masses thrust the sheet of ice against the northern shore. They landed and soon made their appearance at the fort, worn to skeletons and horrible to look upon. The French gave them food, which they devoured132 with a frenzied133 avidity, and, unappeased, fell upon a dead dog left on the snow by Champlain for two months past as a bait for foxes. They broke this carrion134 into fragments, and thawed135 and devoured it, to the disgust of the spectators, who tried vainly to prevent them.
This was but a severe access of the periodical famine which, during winter, was a normal condition of the Algonquin tribes of Acadia and the Lower St. Lawrence, who, unlike the cognate136 tribes of New England, never tilled the soil, or made any reasonable provision against the time of need.
One would gladly know how the founders137 of Quebec spent the long hours of their first winter; but on this point the only man among them, perhaps, who could write, has not thought it necessary to enlarge. He himself beguiled138 his leisure with trapping foxes, or hanging a dead dog from a tree and watching the hungry martens in their efforts to reach it. Towards the close of winter, all found abundant employment in nursing themselves or their neighbors, for the inevitable139 scurvy140 broke out with virulence141. At the middle of May, only eight men of the twenty-eight were alive, and of these half were suffering from disease.
This wintry purgatory142 wore away; the icy stalactites that hung from the cliffs fell crashing to the earth; the clamor of the wild geese was heard; the bluebirds appeared in the naked woods; the water-willows were covered with their soft caterpillar-like blossoms; the twigs143 of the swamp maple108 were flushed with ruddy bloom; the ash hung out its black tufts; the shad-bush seemed a wreath of snow; the white stars of the bloodroot gleamed among dank, fallen leaves; and in the young grass of the wet meadows the marsh-marigolds shone like spots of gold.
Great was the joy of Champlain when, on the fifth of June, he saw a sailboat rounding the Point of Orleans, betokening144 that the spring had brought with it the longed for succors145. A son-in-law of Pontgrave, named Marais, was on board, and he reported that Pontgrave was then at Tadoussac, where he had lately arrived. Thither146 Champlain hastened, to take counsel with his comrade. His constitution or his courage had defied the scurvy. They met, and it was determined147 betwixt them, that, while Pontgrave remained in charge of Quebec, Champlain should enter at once on his long meditated148 explorations, by which, like La Salle seventy years later, he had good hope of finding a way to China.
But there was a lion in the path. The Indian tribes, to whom peace was unknown, infested149 with their scalping parties the streams and pathways of the forest, and increased tenfold its inseparable risks. The after career of Champlain gives abundant proof that he was more than indifferent to all such chances; yet now an expedient150 for evading151 them offered itself, so consonant152 with his instincts that he was glad to accept it.
During the last autumn, a young chief from the banks of the then unknown Ottawa had been at Quebec; and, amazed at what he saw, he had begged Champlain to join him in the spring against his enemies. These enemies were a formidable race of savages153,—the Iroquois, or Five Confederate Nations, who dwelt in fortified villages within limits now embraced by the State of New York, and who were a terror to all the surrounding forests. They were deadly foes154 of their kindred the Hurons, who dwelt on the lake which bears their name, and were allies of Algonquin bands on the Ottawa. All alike were tillers of the soil, living at ease when compared with the famished155 Algonquins of the Lower St. Lawrence.
By joining these Hurons and Algonquins against their Iroquois enemies, Champlain might make himself the indispensable ally and leader of the tribes of Canada, and at the same time fight his way to discovery in regions which otherwise were barred against him. From first to last it was the policy of France in America to mingle156 in Indian politics, hold the balance of power between adverse157 tribes, and envelop158 in the network of her power and diplomacy159 the remotest hordes160 of the wilderness. Of this policy the Father of New France may perhaps be held to have set a rash and premature161 example. Yet while he was apparently162 following the dictates163 of his own adventurous164 spirit, it became evident, a few years later, that under his thirst for discovery and spirit of knight-errantry lay a consistent and deliberate purpose. That it had already assumed a definite shape is not likely; but his after course makes it plain that, in embroiling165 himself and his colony with the most formidable savages on the continent, he was by no means acting166 so recklessly as at first sight would appear.
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