THE GREAT WAR PARTY.
The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose1, for he is never left alone, with the repletion2 of incessant3 and inevitable4 feasts. Tired of this inane5 routine, Champlain, with some of his Frenchmen, set forth6 on a tour of observation. Journeying at their ease by the Indian trails, they visited, in three days, five palisaded villages. The country delighted them, with its meadows, its deep woods, its pine and cedar7 thickets8, full of hares and partridges, its wild grapes and plums, cherries, crab-apples, nuts, and raspberries. It was the seventeenth of August when they reached the Huron metropolis9, Cahiague, in the modern township of Orillia, three leagues west of the river Severn, by which Lake Simcoe pours its waters into the bay of Matchedash. A shrill10 clamor of rejoicing, the fixed11 stare of wondering squaws, and the screaming flight of terrified children hailed the arrival of Champlain. By his estimate, the place contained two hundred lodges12; but they must have been relatively14 small, since, had they been of the enormous capacity sometimes found in these structures, Cahiague alone would have held the whole Huron population. Here was the chief rendezvous15, and the town swarmed16 with gathering17 warriors19. There was cheering news; for an allied20 nation, called Carantonans, probably identical with the Andastes, had promised to join the Hurons in the enemy's country, with five hundred men. Feasts and the war-dance consumed the days, till at length the tardy21 bands had all arrived; and, shouldering their canoes and scanty22 baggage, the naked host set forth.
At the outlet23 of Lake Simcoe they all stopped to fish,—their simple substitute for a commissariat. Hence, too, the intrepid24 Etienne Brule, at his own request, was sent with twelve Indians to hasten forward the five hundred allied warriors,—a dangerous venture, since his course must lie through the borders of the Iroquois.
He set out on the eighth of September, and on the morning of the tenth, Champlain, shivering in his blanket, awoke to see the meadows sparkling with an early frost, soon to vanish under the bright autumnal sun. The Huron fleet pursued its course along Lake Simcoe, across the portage to Balsam or Sturgeon Lake, and down the chain of lakes which form the sources of the river Trent. As the long line of canoes moved on its way, no human life was seen, no sign of friend or foe25; yet at times, to the fancy of Champlain, the borders of the stream seemed decked with groves26 and shrubbery by the hands of man, and the walnut27 trees, laced with grape-vines, seemed decorations of a pleasure-ground.
They stopped and encamped for a deer-hunt. Five hundred Indians, in line, like the skirmishers of an army advancing to battle, drove the game to the end of a woody point; and the canoe-men killed them with spears and arrows as they took to the river. Champlain and his men keenly relished28 the sport, but paid a heavy price for their pleasure. A Frenchman, firing at a buck29, brought down an Indian, and there was need of liberal gifts to console the sufferer and his friends.
The canoes now issued from the mouth of the Trent. Like a flock of venturous wild-fowl, they put boldly out upon Lake Ontario, crossed it in safety, and landed within the borders of New York, on or near the point of land west of Hungry Bay. After hiding their light craft in the woods, the warriors took up their swift and wary31 march, filing in silence between the woods and the lake, for four leagues along the strand32. Then they struck inland, threaded the forest, crossed the outlet of Lake Oneida, and after a march of four days, were deep within the limits of the Iroquois. On the ninth of October some of their scouts33 met a fishing-party of this people, and captured them,—eleven in number, men, women, and children. They were brought to the camp of the exultant34 Hurons. As a beginning of the jubilation35, a chief cut off a finger of one of the women, but desisted from further torturing on the angry protest of Champlain, reserving that pleasure for a more convenient season.
On the next day they reached an open space in the forest. The hostile town was close at hand, surrounded by rugged36 fields with a slovenly37 and savage38 cultivation39. The young Hurons in advance saw the Iroquois at work among the pumpkins40 and maize41, gathering their rustling42 harvest. Nothing could restrain the hare-brained and ungoverned crew. They screamed their war-cry and rushed in; but the Iroquois snatched their weapons, killed and wounded five or six of the assailants, and drove back the rest discomfited43. Champlain and his Frenchmen were forced to interpose; and the report of their pieces from the border of the woods stopped the pursuing enemy, who withdrew to their defences, bearing with them their dead and wounded.
It appears to have been a fortified44 town of the Onondagas, the central tribe of the Iroquois confederacy, standing45, there is some reason to believe, within the limits of Madison County, a few miles south of Lake Oneida. Champlain describes its defensive46 works as much stronger than those of the Huron villages. They consisted of four concentric rows of palisades, formed of trunks of trees, thirty feet high, set aslant47 in the earth, and intersecting each other near the top, where they supported a kind of gallery, well defended by shot-proof timber, and furnished with wooden gutters48 for quenching49 fire. A pond or lake, which washed one side of the palisade, and was led by sluices50 within the town, gave an ample supply of water, while the galleries were well provided with magazines of stones.
Champlain was greatly exasperated51 at the desultory52 and futile53 procedure of his Huron allies. Against his advice, they now withdrew to the distance of a cannon54-shot from the fort, and encamped in the forest, out of sight of the enemy. "I was moved," he says, "to speak to them roughly and harshly enough, in order to incite55 them to do their duty; for I foresaw that if things went according to their fancy, nothing but harm could come of it, to their loss and ruin. He proceeded, therefore, to instruct them in the art of war."
In the morning, aided doubtless by his ten or twelve Frenchmen, they set themselves with alacrity56 to their prescribed task. A wooden tower was made, high enough to overlook the palisade, and large enough to shelter four or five marksmen. Huge wooden shields, or movable parapets, like the mantelets of the Middle Ages, were also constructed. Four hours sufficed to finish the work, and then the assault began. Two hundred of the strongest warriors dragged the tower forward, and planted it within a pike's length of the palisade. Three arquebusiers mounted to the top, where, themselves well sheltered, they opened a raking fire along the galleries, now thronged58 with wild and naked defenders59. But nothing could restrain the ungovernable Hurons. They abandoned their mantelets, and, deaf to every command, swarmed out like bees upon the open field, leaped, shouted, shrieked60 their war-cries, and shot off their arrows; while the Iroquois, yelling defiance61 from their ramparts, sent back a shower of stones and arrows in reply. A Huron, bolder than the rest, ran forward with firebrands to burn the palisade, and others followed with wood to feed the flame. But it was stupidly kindled62 on the leeward63 side, without the protecting shields designed to cover it; and torrents64 of water, poured down from the gutters above, quickly extinguished it. The confusion was redoubled. Champlain strove in vain to restore order. Each warrior18 was yelling at the top of his throat, and his voice was drowned in the outrageous65 din30. Thinking, as he says, that his head would split with shouting, he gave over the attempt, and busied himself and his men with picking off the Iroquois along their ramparts.
The attack lasted three hours, when the assailants fell back to their fortified camp, with seventeen warriors wounded. Champlain, too, had received an arrow in the knee, and another in the leg, which, for the time, disabled him. He was urgent, however, to renew the attack; while the Hurons, crestfallen66 and disheartened, refused to move from their camp unless the five hundred allies, for some time expected, should appear. They waited five days in vain, beguiling67 the interval68 with frequent skirmishes, in which they were always worsted; then began hastily to retreat, carrying their wounded in the centre, while the Iroquois, sallying from their stronghold, showered arrows on their flanks and rear. The wounded, Champlain among the rest, after being packed in baskets made on the spot, were carried each on the back of a strong warrior, "bundled in a heap," says Champlain, "doubled and strapped69 together after such a fashion that one could move no more than an infant in swaddling-clothes. The pain is extreme, as I can truly say from experience, having been carried several days in this way, since I could not stand, chiefly on account of the arrow-wound I had got in the knee. I never was in such torment70 in my life, for the pain of the wound was nothing to that of being bound and pinioned71 on the back of one of our savages72. I lost patience, and as soon as I could bear my weight I got out of this prison, or rather out of hell."
At length the dismal73 march was ended. They reached the spot where their canoes were hidden, found them untouched, embarked74, and recrossed to the northern shore of Lake Ontario. The Hurons had promised Champlain an escort to Quebec; but as the chiefs had little power, in peace or war, beyond that of persuasion75, each warrior found good reasons for refusing to lend his canoe. Champlain, too, had lost prestige. The "man with the iron breast" had proved not inseparably wedded76 to victory; and though the fault was their own, yet not the less was the lustre77 of their hero tarnished78. There was no alternative. He must winter with the Hurons. The great war party broke into fragments, each band betaking itself to its hunting-ground. A chief named Durantal, or Darontal, offered Champlain the shelter of his lodge13, and he was glad to accept it.
Meanwhile, Etienne Brule had found cause to rue79 the hour when he undertook his hazardous80 mission to the Carantonan allies. Three years passed before Champlain saw him. It was in the summer of 1618, that, reaching the Saut St. Louis, he there found the interpreter, his hands and his swarthy face marked with traces of the ordeal81 he had passed. Brule then told him his story.
He had gone, as already mentioned, with twelve Indians, to hasten the march of the allies, who were to join the Hurons before the hostile town. Crossing Lake Ontario, the party pushed onward82 with all speed, avoiding trails, threading the thickest forests and darkest swamps, for it was the land of the fierce and watchful83 Iroquois. They were well advanced on their way when they saw a small party of them crossing a meadow, set upon them, surprised them, killed four, and took two prisoners, whom they led to Carantonan,—a palisaded town with a population of eight hundred warriors, or about four thousand souls. The dwellings84 and defences were like those of the Hurons, and the town seems to have stood on or near the upper waters of the Susquehanna. They were welcomed with feasts, dances, and an uproar85 of rejoicing. The five hundred warriors prepared to depart; but, engrossed86 by the general festivity, they prepared so slowly, that, though the hostile town was but three days distant, they found on reaching it that the besiegers were gone. Brule now returned with them to Carantonan, and, with enterprise worthy87 of his commander, spent the winter in a tour of exploration. Descending88 a river, evidently the Susquehanna, he followed it to its junction89 with the sea, through territories of populous90 tribes, at war the one with the other. When, in the spring, he returned to Carantonan, five or six of the Indians offered to guide him towards his countrymen. Less fortunate than before, he encountered on the way a band of Iroquois, who, rushing upon the party, scattered91 them through the woods. Brule ran like the rest. The cries of pursuers and pursued died away in the distance. The forest was silent around him. He was lost in the shady labyrinth92. For three or four days he wandered, helpless and famished93, till at length he found an Indian foot-path, and, choosing between starvation and the Iroquois, desperately94 followed it to throw himself on their mercy. He soon saw three Indians in the distance, laden95 with fish newly caught, and called to them in the Huron tongue, which was radically96 similar to that of the Iroquois. They stood amazed, then turned to fly; but Brule, gaunt with famine, flung down his weapons in token of friendship. They now drew near, listened to the story of his distress97, lighted their pipes, and smoked with him; then guided him to their village, and gave him food.
A crowd gathered about him. "Whence do you come? Are you not one of the Frenchmen, the men of iron, who make war on us?"
Brule answered that he was of a nation better than the French, and fast friends of the Iroquois.
His incredulous captors tied him to a tree, tore out his beard by handfuls, and burned him with fire-brands, while their chief vainly interposed in his behalf. He was a good Catholic, and wore an Agnus Dei at his breast. One of his torturers asked what it was, and thrust out his hand to take it.
"If you touch it," exclaimed Brule, "you and all your race will die."
The Indian persisted. The day was hot, and one of those thunder-gusts which often succeed the fierce heats of an American midsummer was rising against the sky. Brule pointed98 to the inky clouds as tokens of the anger of his God. The storm broke, and, as the celestial99 artillery100 boomed over their darkening forests, the Iroquois were stricken with a superstitious101 terror. They all fled from the spot, leaving their victim still bound fast, until the chief who had endeavored to protect him returned, cut the cords, led him to his lodge, and dressed his wounds. Thenceforth there was neither dance nor feast to which Brule was not invited; and when he wished to return to his countrymen, a party of Iroquois guided him four days on his way. He reached the friendly Hurons in safety, and joined them on their yearly descent to meet the French traders at Montreal.
Brule's adventures find in some points their counterpart in those of his commander on the winter hunting-grounds of his Huron allies. As we turn the ancient, worm-eaten page which preserves the simple record of his fortunes, a wild and dreary102 scene rises before the mind,—a chill November air, a murky103 sky, a cold lake, bare and shivering forests, the earth strewn with crisp brown leaves, and, by the water-side, the bark sheds and smoking camp-fires of a band of Indian hunters. Champlain was of the party. There was ample occupation for his gun, for the morning was vocal104 with the clamor of wild-fowl, and his evening meal was enlivened by the rueful music of the wolves. It was a lake north or northwest of the site of Kingston. On the borders of a neighboring river, twenty-five of the Indians had been busied ten days in preparing for their annual deer-hunt. They planted posts interlaced with boughs105 in two straight converging106 lines, each extending mere107 than half a mile through forests and swamps. At the angle where they met was made a strong enclosure like a pound. At dawn of day the hunters spread themselves through the woods, and advanced with shouts, clattering108 of sticks, and howlings like those of wolves, driving the deer before them into the enclosure, where others lay in wait to despatch109 them with arrows and spears.
Champlain was in the woods with the rest, when he saw a bird whose novel appearance excited his attention; and, gun in hand, he went in pursuit. The bird, flitting from tree to tree, lured110 him deeper and deeper into the forest; then took wing and vanished. The disappointed sportsman tried to retrace111 his steps. But the day was clouded, and he had left his pocket-compass at the camp. The forest closed around him, trees mingled112 with trees in endless confusion. Bewildered and lost, he wandered all day, and at night slept fasting at the foot of a tree. Awaking, he wandered on till afternoon, when he reached a pond slumbering113 in the shadow of the woods. There were water-fowl along its brink114, some of which he shot, and for the first time found food to allay115 his hunger. He kindled a fire, cooked his game, and, exhausted116, blanketless, drenched117 by a cold rain, made his prayer to Heaven, and again lay down to sleep. Another day of blind and weary wandering succeeded, and another night of exhaustion118. He had found paths in the wilderness119, but they were not made by human feet. Once more roused from his shivering repose, he journeyed on till he heard the tinkling120 of a little brook121, and bethought him of following its guidance, in the hope that it might lead him to the river where the hunters were now encamped. With toilsome steps he followed the infant stream, now lost beneath the decaying masses of fallen trunks or the impervious122 intricacies of matted "windfalls," now stealing through swampy123 thickets or gurgling in the shade of rocks, till it entered at length, not into the river, but into a small lake. Circling around the brink, he found the point where the brook ran out and resumed its course. Listening in the dead stillness of the woods, a dull, hoarse124 sound rose upon his ear. He went forward, listened again, and could plainly hear the plunge125 of waters. There was light in the forest before him, and, thrusting himself through the entanglement126 of bushes, he stood on the edge of a meadow. Wild animals were here of various kinds; some skulking127 in the bordering thickets, some browsing128 on the dry and matted grass. On his right rolled the river, wide and turbulent, and along its bank he saw the portage path by which the Indians passed the neighboring rapids. He gazed about him. The rocky hills seemed familiar to his eye. A clew was found at last; and, kindling129 his evening fire, with grateful heart he broke a long fast on the game he had killed. With the break of day he descended130 at his ease along the bank, and soon descried131 the smoke of the Indian fires curling in the heavy morning air against the gray borders of the forest. The joy was great on both sides. The Indians had searched for him without ceasing; and from that day forth his host, Durantal, would never let him go into the forest alone.
They were thirty-eight days encamped on this nameless river, and killed in that time a hundred and twenty deer. Hard frosts were needful to give them passage over the land of lakes and marshes133 that lay between them and the Huron towns. Therefore they lay waiting till the fourth of December; when the frost came, bridged the lakes and streams, and made the oozy134 marsh132 as firm as granite135. Snow followed, powdering the broad wastes with dreary white. Then they broke up their camp, packed their game on sledges136 or on their shoulders, tied on their snowshoes, and began their march. Champlain could scarcely endure his load, though some of the Indians carried a weight fivefold greater. At night, they heard the cleaving137 ice uttering its strange groans138 of torment, and on the morrow there came a thaw139. For four days they waded140 through slush and water up to their knees; then came the shivering northwest wind, and all was hard again. In nineteen days they reached the town of Cahiague, and, lounging around their smoky lodge-fires, the hunters forgot the hardships of the past.
For Champlain there was no rest. A double motive141 urged him,—discovery, and the strengthening of his colony by widening its circle of trade. First, he repaired to Carhagouha; and here he found the friar, in his hermitage, still praying, preaching, making catechisms, and struggling with the manifold difficulties of the Huron tongue. After spending several weeks together, they began their journeyings, and in three days reached the chief village of the Nation of Tobacco, a powerful tribe akin57 to the Hurons, and soon to be incorporated with them. The travellers visited seven of their towns, and then passed westward142 to those of the people whom Champlain calls the Cheveax Releves, and whom he commends for neatness and ingenuity143 no less than he condemns144 them for the nullity of their summer attire145. As the strangers passed from town to town, their arrival was everywhere the signal of festivity. Champlain exchanged pledges of amity146 with his hosts, and urged them to come down with the Hurons to the yearly trade at Montreal.
Spring was now advancing, and, anxious for his colony, he turned homeward, following that long circuit of Lake Huron and the Ottawa which Iroquois hostility147 made the only practicable route. Scarcely had he reached the Nipissings, and gained from them a pledge to guide him to that delusive148 northern sea which never ceased to possess his thoughts, when evil news called him back in haste to the Huron towns. A band of those Algonquins who dwelt on the great island in the Ottawa had spent the winter encamped near Cahiague, whose inhabitants made them a present of an Iroquois prisoner, with the friendly intention that they should enjoy the pleasure of torturing him. The Algonquins, on the contrary, fed, clothed, and adopted him. On this, the donors149, in a rage, sent a warrior to kill the Iroquois. He stabbed him, accordingly, in the midst of the Algonquin chiefs, who in requital150 killed the murderer. Here was a casus belli involving most serious issues for the French, since the Algonquins, by their position on the Ottawa, could cut off the Hurons and all their allies from coming down to trade. Already a fight had taken place at Cahiague the principal Algonquin chief had been wounded, and his band forced to purchase safety by a heavy tribute of wampum 33 and a gift of two female prisoners.
All eyes turned to Champlain as umpire of the quarrel. The great council-house was filled with Huron and Algonquin cltiefs, smoking with that immobility of feature beneath which their race often hide a more than tiger-like ferocity. The umpire addressed the assembly, enlarged on the folly151 of falling to blows between themselves when the common enemy stood ready to devour152 them both, extolled153 the advantages of the French trade and alliance, and, with zeal154 not wholly disinterested155, urged them to shake hands like brothers. The friendly counsel was accepted, the pipe of peace was smoked, the storm dispelled156, and the commerce of New France rescued from a serious peril157.
Once more Champlain turned homeward, and with him went his Huron host, Durantal. Le Caron had preceded him; and, on the eleventh of July, the fellow-travellers met again in the infant capital of Canada. The Indians had reported that Champlain was dead, and he was welcomed as one risen from the grave. The friars, who were all here, chanted lands in their chapel158, with a solemn mass and thanksgiving. To the two travelers, fresh from the hardships of the wilderness, the hospitable159 board of Quebec, the kindly160 society of countrymen and friends, the adjacent gardens,—always to Champlain an object of especial interest,—seemed like the comforts and repose of home.
The chief Durantal found entertainment worthy of his high estate. The fort, the ship, the armor, the plumes161, the cannon, the marvellous architecture of the houses and barracks, the splendors162 of the chapel, and above all the good cheer outran the boldest excursion of his fancy; and he paddled back at last to his lodge in the woods, bewildered with astonishment163 and admiration164.
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junction
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distress
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artillery
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admiration
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| n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕 | |
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