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# A Romany of the Snows

Toronto: The Copp, Clark Company, Limited, 1898. [# Pretty Pierre] First published in England as An Adventurer of the North (1896)
A ROMANY OF THE SNOWS
PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND AS
“An Adventurer of the North”
BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE PERSONAL HISTORIES OF “PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE” AND THE LAST EXISTING RECORDS OF PRETTY PIERRE
BY GILBERT PARKER
TORONTO THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED
To
SIR WILLIAM C. VAN HORNE.
My Dear Sir William,
To the public it will seem fitting that these new tales of “Pierre and His People” should be inscribed to one whose notable career is inseparably associated with the life and development of the Far North.
But there is a deeper and more personal significance in this dedication, for some of the stories were begotten in late gossip by your fireside; and furthermore, my little book is given a kind of distinction, in having on its fore-page the name of one well known as a connoisseur of art and a lover of literature.
          Believe me,
                Dear Sir William,
                      Sincerely yours,
                            GILBERT PARKER.
7 Park Place. St. James’s. London. S.W.

### CONTENTS

* Across the Jumping Sandhills 7
* A Lovely Bully 20
* The Filibuster 41
* The Gift of the Simple King 62
* Malachi 86
* The Lake of the Great Slave 97
* The Red Patrol 116
* The Going of the White Swan 130
* At Bamber's Boom 154
* The Bridge House 165
* The Epaulettes 185
* The Finding Of Fingall 195
* Three Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue 206
* Little Babiche 233
* At Point o' Bugles 246
* The Spoil of the Puma 260
* The Trail of the Sun Dogs 288
* The Pilot of Belle Amour 299
* The Cruise of the "Ninety-Nine" 323
* A Romany of the Snows 359
* The Plunderer 382
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Edward

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​GORE. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 12; h-p., 25.)
The Honourable Edward Gore, born 14 May, 1797, is fourth son of the second Earl of Arran, K.P., by his third wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Rich. Underwood, Esq.; brother of Col. Hon. Chas. Gore, C.B., K.H., Deputy Quartermaster-General in Canada, and of Her Grace the Duchess of Inverness; half-brother of Col.Wm. John Gore, who died in Jan. 1836; uncle, through that gentleman, of the present Earl of Arran, and of Commander Hon. Robt. Gore, R.N.; and first-cousin of Retired Commander Ralph Gore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1810, as a Volunteer, on board the Revenge 74, Capts. Hon. Chas. Paget and John Nash; under the former of whom he witnessed an attack made, 15 Nov. 1810, by Capt. Chas. Grant, of the Diana, upon the two French frigates Amazone and Eliza, protected by the fire of several strong batteries, near Cherbourg. Quitting the Revenge in May, 1811, Mr. Gore, during the next six years and a half, served, principally as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, on board the Royal George, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Williams, Royal Oak 74, Capt. Pulteney Malcolm, Venerable 74, Capt. Sir Home Popham, Superb 74 (commanded at first by Hon. Chas. Paget, then employed as flag-ship of Hon. Henry Hotham, and afterwards commanded by Capt. Chas. Ekins), Fury bomb, Capt. Constantine Rich. Moorsom, and Egeria 24, Capt. Robt. Rowley. While in the Venerable on the north coast of Spain, he was present at the capture of several towns and forts, including those of Lequeytio, Bermeo, Plencia, Galea, Algorta, Bagona, El Campillo las Quersas, Xebiles, Castro, and St. Ano. Among the boat-services participated in by Mr. Gore while employed in the Superb on the North American station, we may enumerate the destruction, 13 June. 1814, of the Fair Trader of 444 tons, fitting as a letter-of-marque; – next, of the Independent of 300 tons, pierced for 14 guns, and about to be launched as a privateer; – also, of 1778 tons of merchant-shipping; – and of a cotton-manufactory, near Wareham, valued, with its stores, at half a million of dollars. He was ​present, besides, in a rocket-boat, at the bombardment of Stonington, 11 Aug. 1814; and, when in the Fury, he fought at Algiers. After having acted for two months, Mr. Gore was confirmed a Lieutenant, 9 Dec. 1817, in the {{sc|Fly} sloop, Capt. John Baldwin; which vessel, in Feb. 1818, had to cut her way through the ice at St. John’s, Newfoundland, for the purpose of bringing home the remains of Vice-Admiral Pickmore, and was afterwards all but lost on her passage. Mr. Gore’s next appointments were – 26 April, 1819, to the Tamar 26, Capt. Hon. John Gordon – in the course of 1827, to the Fairy 10, Capt. Geo. Wm. Conway Courtenay, Melville 74, Capt. Henry Garrett, and Victory 104, Capt. Geo. Elliot – and 10 June, 1828, to the Royal Sovereign yacht, as Flag-Lieutenant to the Lord High Admiral. He was promoted to his present rank on 8 of the following Aug.; and has since been on half-pay.
Commander Gore married in 1797, and has issue a son and two daughters. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, John (a)

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​GORE. (Captain, 1821. f-p., 22; h-p., 36.)
John Gore (a) entered the Navy, 3 June, 1789, as A.B., on board the Guardian, Lieut.-Commander Edw. Riou, of which ship, employed in conveying provisions to New South Wales, he successively became Midshipman and Master’s Mate. While next attached, from July, 1791, until Sept. 1793, to the Assistant armed tender, Lieut.-Commander Nathaniel Portlock, we find him engaged, in company with H.M.S. Providence, in carrying the bread-fruit plant to the West Indies. From the latter date, until promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 19 Aug. 1795, he served, on the Home station, in the Resolution, Arrogant, and Defence 74’s, Capts. Cumming, Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, and Thos. Wells, and in the Namur 98, Capt. J. H. Whitshed. His subsequent appointments were, on the Channel, West India, and South American stations – 19 Aug. 1795, to the Minerva frigate, Capt. Thos. Peyton – 27 Dec. 1796, to the Ramillies 74, Capts. Sir Rich. Bickerton and Bartholomew Sam. Rowley – in the course of 1799, to the Formidable 98, Capt. J. H. Whitshed, Melampus 36, Capt. Graham Moore, and Téméraire 98, flag-ship of Admirals J. H. Whitshed, Sir John Warren, and Geo. Campbell – 11 July,, 1803, after nine months of half-pay, to the Indefatigable 44, Capts. Graham Moore and John Tremayne Rodd – and, 29 Oct. 1805, and 30 July, 1807, to the Fame and Marlborough 74’s, both commanded by Capt. G. Moore, under whom, in the last-mentioned ship, he escorted the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils. When with the same officer in the Indefatigable, Mr. Gore appears to have contributed to the capture of three Spanish frigates laden with treasure, and the destruction of a fourth, off Cape St. Mary, 5 Oct. 1804; and to have been recommended in the strongest manner for his conduct on that occasion. He attained the rank of Commander 23 June, 1808, but did not again go afloat until appointed, 13 Feb. 1818, to the Dotterel 18, on the St. Helena station, where he served until promoted to Post-rank, 19 July, 1821. Capt. Gore accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846. Agents – Pettet and Newton.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Robert (b)

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​GORE. (Commander, 1821. f-p., 16; h-p., 26.)
Robert Gore entered the Royal Naval College in April, 1805; and embarked, in Dec. 1808, as Midshipman, on board the Warspite 74, Capt. Hon. Sir Henry Blackwood, with whom he served, until March, 1813, on the Home and Mediterranean stations. After a further attachment to the Defiance and Vigo 74’s, flag-ships in the Baltic of Sir Geo. Hope and Sir Graham Moore, he was there confirmed a Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1813, in the Orion 74, Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson. He subsequently joined – 26 Jan. 1814, the Horatio 38, Capt. Wm. Henry Dillon, successively employed, until paid off in Jan. 1817, in escorting convoy to Newfoundland, protecting the whale-fishery at Greenland against the Americans, cruizing off the coast of France for the interception of Buonaparte after the battle of Waterloo, and in a voyage to China April, 1818, to the Scout 18, Capt. Wm. Kamsden, on the Mediterranean station – and, 6 Aug. 1819, to the Leander 60, flag-ship in the East Indies of Hon. Sir H. Blackwood. He was promoted on that station to the command, 23 July, 1821, of the Satellite 18. He ultimately invalided home, and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Graham

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​GORE. (Commander, 1846.)
Graham Gore entered the Navy 27 April, 1820; served, as Midshipman of the Albion 74, Capt. John Acworth Ommanney, at the battle of Navarin, 20 Oct. 1827; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 10 Jan. 1837. His appointments as Lieutenant, we find, were – 22 Nov. 1837, to the Modeste 18, Capt. Harry Eyres, lying at Woolwich – 23 Jan. 1838, to the Volage 28, Capt. Henry Smith, in which ship he assisted at the capture of Aden in 1839, and of the Bogue forts and Chusan in 1840 – 28 Oct. 1840, to the Herald 26, Capt. Joseph Nias, on the East India station, whence he returned home and was paid off in the early part of 1843 – 11 Dec. in the atter year, as First, to the Cyclops steam-frigate, Capt. Wm. Fred. Lapidge, employed on particular service – and, 8 March, 1845, to the Erebus discovery-ship, Capt. Sir John Franklin, with whom he sailed on a North-west Passage explorative expedition. He was advanced to the rank he now holds 9 Nov. 1846, but is still serving in the Erebus. Commander Gore was also for a considerable time First-Lieutenant both of the Volage and Herald. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Ralph (a)

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​GORE. (Retired Commander, 1835. f-p., 23; h-p., 29.)
Ralph Gore, born 15 May, 1781, is son of the Hon. Paul Gore, of Wexford (brother of the second Earl of Arran, K.P.), by Anne, daughter of Wm. Leonard, Esq.; uncle of Lieut.-Colonel Arthur Gore; and first-cousin of Commander Hon. Edw. Gore, R.N.
This officer entered the Nayy, 15 May, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Boy, on board the Melampus of 42 guns and 267 men, Capts. Sir Rich. John Strachan and Graham Moore; under the former of whom, when off St. Maloes, in company with the Hebe 38, he assisted at the capture, 3 July following, of six out of 13 French vessels, laden with military stores, and convoyed by a ship of 26 guns, and also by two armed brigs, one of which., La Vésuve, was likewise taken. While employed under Capt. Moore, we find him contributing to the further capture of the French national ships Etonnant of 18 guns, Etna of 20 guns, Volage of 22 guns and 195 men, and Résolue of 40 guns and 500 men, including troops. The latter frigate was taken on 14 Oct. 179S, and was one of a squadron of ships that had been previously defeated under Commodore Bompart during an action in which the Melampus had had but 1 man wounded. After leaving the latter vessel, Mr. Gore joined a 50-gun ship, whose name has escaped us, and was for some time employed, as Master’s Mate, in the conveyance of Russian troops from Revel to Holland. Removing, in 1800, to the Cerberus 32, Capt. Jas. Macnamara, he served, dunng the remainder of the war, in that ship on the Jamaica station, where, on 14 April, 1802, he was engaged in the capture of a pirate. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 15 Oct. following (after having acted for nearly three months as such), in the Shark sloop, Capt. J. B. Heron; and was subsequently appointed – in 1803, for a short time, to the Bellerophon 74, Commodore John Loring, under whom he witnessed the surrender of Cape François, St. Domingo – 6 Dec. 1804, to the Proselyte 24, Capt. Geo. Sayer, also on the West India station, whence he returned home, as First of L’Alexandre ship of the line – 21 Nov. 1806, as Senior, to the Décade 38, Capt. Stewart, in the Channel – in 1809 to the Sea Fencibles – in 1812, after two years of half-pay, to the Deptford tender, which he commanded, on Impress service, until Aug. 1816 – and, in 1820, to the Coast Guard. He left the latter service in 1826, and accepted his present rank 15 April, 1835.
Commander Gore appears to have been employed for some time previously to Dec. 1841 in the Royal Hospital at Chelsea. He married, 4 Feb. 1809, Frances, daughter of Major Alex. Hay, Esq., of Dublin, and has issue two sons. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Ralph (b)

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​GORE. (Lieutenant, 1824.)
Ralph Gore (b) entered the Navy 26 Sept. 1808; obtained his commission 15 May, 1824; and was employed, from 27 May, 1830, until paid off, 23 March, 1832, in the Ganges 84, Capts. Edw. Stirling Dickson and Geo. Burdett, on the Mediterranean station. He does not appear to have been since afloat. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, Robert (a)

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​GORE, M.P. (Captain, 1846.)
The Honourable Robert Gore, born in 1810, is fourth son of Colonel Hon. Wm. John Gore, by Caroline, youngest daughter and co-heir of the late Sir Thos. Pym Hales, Bart.; brother of the present Earl of Arran, also of Capt. Hon. Wm. John Pym Gore, and of Hon. Chas. Alex. Gore, Commissioner of Woods and Forests; and uncle of Commander Hon. Edw. Gore, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Sept. 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 13 June, 1832. His appointments, as Lieutenant, were – 25 Nov. 1832, to the Melville 74, Capt. Henry Hart, on the East India station – 1 Dec. 1834, to the Andromache 28, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, in the boats of which frigate he was frequently engaged in action with the Malay pirates – and, 5 Feb. 1838, to the command, in North America and the West Indies, of the Charybdis 3. Ascending the next step in his profession 9 May, 1839, Capt. Gore was immediately appointed to the Serpent 16, also on the North America and West India station, where he served the time required to qualify him for the receipt of Post-rank, to which he was advanced 9 Nov. 1846. He is at present on half-pay.
Capt. Gore is M.P. for New Ross, co. Wexford. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gordon, William Everard Alphonso

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​GORDON. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
William Everard Alphonso Gordon entered the Navy 29 April, 1830; passed his examination 7 Dec. 1836; and after serving for some time as Mate in the Cambridge 78, commanded in the Mediterranean by Capt. Edw. Barnard, and also in the Dido, 18, Capt. Hon. Henry Keppel, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 28 Jan. 1842. His appointments have since been – 7 March, 1842, to the Winchester 50, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Hon. Josceline Percy – on 26 of the same month to the Vindictive 50, Capt. John Toup Nicolas, on the East India station – 15 Dec. 1842, to the Driver steam-sloop, Capts. Sam. Fielding Harmer and Courtenay Osborn Hayes, also employed in the East – 2 Sept. 1844, and 22 Jan. 1845, to the Firebrand steam-frigate, Capt. Jas. Hope, and Superb 80, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, both attached to the Channel squadron – and 15 June, 1846, as First, to the Inflexible steam-sloop, Capt. John Cochrane Hoseason, in which vessel he is now serving in the East Indies.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, George Edward Knox

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​GORE. (Lieutenant, 1843. f-p., 15; h-p., 0.)
George Edward Knox Gore entered the Navy, 12 March, 1832, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Conway 28, Capt. Henry Eden, employed, until Oct. 1835, on the West India, Home, Lisbon, and South American stations. After serving next for short periods in the Scout 18, Howe 120, and Hercules 74, he appears to have been three years employed off the coast of Spain, and on the North America and West India station, on board the Pique 36, Capts. Hon. Henry John Rous and Edw. Boxer. Removing in June, 1839, to the Druid 44, Capts. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill and Henry Smith, Mr. Gore, we find, served in that ship throughout the whole of the campaign in China; where he commanded her launch at the taking of the Macao barrier in Aug. 1840, was present at the subsequent capture of the Bogue forts and of the city of Amoy, and was constantly employed on boat-service. He was promoted, soon after the paying off of the Druid, to his present rank, by commission dated 20 Sept. 1843. His appointments have since been – 18 Oct. 1843, to the Stromboli steam-sloop, Capt. Hon. Edw. Plunkett, employed on particular service – and 7 May, 1844, to the Collingwood 80, now flag-ship in the Pacific of Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Gore, John (b)

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​GORE. (Captain, 1825. f-p., 21; h-p., 29.)
John Gore (b) entered the Navy, in Sept. 1797, as Midshipman, on board the Santa Margarita 36, Capt. Geo. Parker, on the Irish station. He came home in 1802, after visiting the West Indies, in the Porcupine 24, Capt. Bridges Watkinson Taylor, and, prior to his return thither in 1804, served, further, in the Oiseau, Capt. Phillips, Nemesis 28, Capt. Somerville, and Culloden 74, and San Josef 110, flag-ships of Sir Edw. Pellew and Sir Chas. Cotton. Being confirmed a Lieutenant, on 10 Oct. in the latter year, in the Clorinde frigate, Capt. M‘Donald, Mr. Gore was next employed in that capacity, on the Channel, North Sea, Baltic, and Jamaica stations, in the Aimable 32, Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, Stately 64, Capt. Geo. Parker, Prince of Wales 98, bearing the flag of Lord Gambier, Polyphemus 64, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, and Shark sloop, Capt. Edw. Henry A’Court. After the reduction of Copenhagen, where he had been present on board the Prince of Wales, he brought home, in Oct. 1807, the Nijaden, one of the enemy’s captured frigates. From 1 March until 17 July, 1809, he acted as Commander of the Thrush and Griffon sloops, in the latter of which he was engaged at the blockade and surrender of the city of St. Domingo. He then returned to the Polyphemus, as Flag-Lieutenant to Admiral Rowley, and was afterwards employed, still on the Jamaica station, in the Hebe, Capt. John Fyffe, Sapphire, Capt. Henry Haynes, and Shark, Capt. Morrison. He was confirmed (after having acted for upwards of seven months) in the command of the latter sloop, by commission dated 10 Oct. 1812. He left the Shark in July, 1814, for the purpose of joining the Emulous; the command of which vessel he resigned 3 Feb. 1815. Capt. Gore’s last appointment was, on 18 Aug. 1815 to the Saracen 16, employed on the American station, whence he returned home and was paid off in Dec. 1818. He acquired Post-rank 27 July, 1825; and was placed upon the list of Retired Captains 1 Oct. 1846. Agents- Pettet and Newton.
# A voice from Harper's Ferry/Chapter 8

CHAPTER VIII.
COUNCIL MEETINGS—ORDERS GIVEN—THE CHARGE—ETC.
On Sunday morning, October 16th, Captain Brown arose earlier than usual, and called his men down to worship. He read a chapter from the Bible, applicable to the condition of the slaves, and our duty as their brethren, and then offered up a fervent prayer to God to assist in the liberation of the bondmen in that slaveholding land. The services were impressive beyond expression. Every man there assembled seemed to respond from the depths of his soul, and throughout the entire day, a deep solemnity pervaded the place. The old man's usually weighty words were invested with more than ordinary importance, and the countenance of every man reflected the momentous thought that absorbed his attention within.
After breakfast had been despatched, and the roll called by the Captain, a sentinel was posted outside the door, to warn by signal if any one should approach, and we listened to preparatory remarks to a council meeting to be held that day. At 10 o'clock, the council was assembled. I was appointed to the Chair, when matters of importance were considered at length. After the council adjourned, the Constitution was read for the benefit of the few who had not before heard it, and the necessary oaths taken. Men who were to hold military positions in the organization, and who had not received commissions before then, had their commissions filled out by J. H. Kagi, and gave the required obligations.
In the afternoon, the eleven orders presented in the next chapter were given by the Captain, and were afterwards carried out in every particular by the officers and men.
In the evening, before setting out to the Ferry, he gave his final charge, in which he said, among other things:—"And ​now, gentlemen, let me impress this one thing upon your minds. You all know how dear life is to you, and how dear your life is to your friends. And in remembering that, consider that the lives of others are as dear to them as yours are to you. Do not, therefore, take the life of any one, if you can possibly avoid it; but if it is necessary to take life in order to save your own, then make sure work of it."
# A voice from Harper's Ferry/Chapter 17

CHAPTER XVII.
A WORD OR TWO MORE ABOUT ALBERT HAZLETT.
I left Lieut. Hazlett prostrate with fatigue and hunger, the night on which I went to Chambersburg. The next day, he went into the town boldly, carrying his blanket, rifle and revolver, and proceeded to the house where Kagi had boarded. The reward was then out for John E. Cook's arrest, and suspecting him to be Cook, Hazlett was pursued. He was chased from the house where he was by the officers, dropping his rifle in his flight. When he got to Carlisle, so far from receiving kindness from the citizens of his native State,—he was from Northern Pennsylvania,—he was arrested and lodged in jail, given up to the authorities of Virginia, and shamefully executed by them,—his identity, however, never having been proven before the Court. A report of his arrest at the time reads as follows:—
Hazlett was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff. The Judge appointed a further hearing, and issued subpœnas for witnesses from Virginia, &c. No positive evidence in that last hearing was adduced, and yet Governor Packer ordered him to be delivered up; and the pro-slavery authorities made haste to carry out the mandate.
# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 168

Chap. CLXVIII.—How to paint old Women.
Old women, on the contrary, are to be represented bold and quick, with passionate motions, like furies. But the motions are to appear a great deal quicker in their arms than in their legs.
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# A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 169

Chap. CLXIX.—How to paint Women.
Women are to be represented in modest and reserved attitudes, with their knees rather close, their arms drawing near each other, or folded about the body; their heads looking downwards, and leaning a little on one side.
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