Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-11
TIE GREAT PEACE.

THE GREAT PEACE.
or the long and bitter journey from
the Iroquois towns to Lake ST. George,
down the Richelieu and thence through
the deep SHOWS of the Canadian win
ter, it boots little to make mention;
neither TO tell of that devotion of Raoul
de LiSny TO the newly-rescued lady,
already reputed in camp rumor to be
OF noble English family.
THAT sous-neutenant; he is tete
montee regarding madame" said Pierre
Noir one evening to Jean Breboeuf
AS 10 that-well you know Monsieur
Las. Pouf! So much for yon mon
key, par comparison.
He is great capitaine, Monsieur
Las said Jean Breboeuf. Never a
better went beyond the straits"
But very sad of late"
oh. oui. since the death of his
friend, Monsieur lie Capitaine Penn
broke-may Mary aid his SPIRIT
Monsieur Las goes not on the trail
again said Pierre Noir AT least not
while this look is in his eye"
The more the loss, Pierre Noir; but
some day the woods will call to him
again. know not how long it may
be, yet some day Mother Messasebe
will raise her finger and beckon to
Monsieur Las. and say: Come. my
fon! lis thus, as you know, Pierre
Noir"
Yet at length the Struggling settle
ments at Montreal were reached. and
here, after the fashion of the frontier.
some sort of menage was inaugurated
Tor Law and his party. Here they lived
through the rest of the winter and
through the long. slow spring
And then set on again the heats of
summer, and there came apace the time
agreed upon, in the month of August,
for the widely heralded assembling of
the tribes for the Great Peace: one of
the most picturesque and significant
meetings of widely diverse human be-
ings. that ever took place within the
ken of history
They came. these savages. now first
owning the strength of the invading
white men. from all the far and I'M
known corners OF the western wilder
ness. They came aiOOt and with little
trains OF dogs, in single canoes. in little
groups ana growing notillas and vast
fleets of canoes. pushing on and on.
down stream following the tide of the
furs down this pathway of more than a
thousand miles The lroquois. for once
mindful of a promise, came in a com
pact fleet. hundred canoes strong.
and they stalked about the island for
days naked, stark. gigantic. contemp-
tuOus OF white and red men. Of friend
and foe alike The scattered Algon-
qdin-. whose villages had been RACED
by these same savage warriors. came
down hy scores out Of the northern
woods along little. unknown streams.
and owe paths with which none but
theHe'.Fc- were acquainted. From the
hoil. -Foup joined group and village
AIDED itself 10 village. until a vast
DOGGY ~ people had assembled. whose
mum would have been hard to esti-
ma lI who proved difficult enough
'p ~. immediate Sc. farther west. adj
o'a- .e.. numbers TO those already
gathered came the fleets Of he driven
idT' and tho Oj,bways and the
Mia. and fle Du-a@amies. and the
o'ia Tic Nou.minics and The Mas
c3aiu even thr Him. late objects
Of iIo ra'h ~ The 1--WE nations Tho
WHO. western wilderness poured forth
Us population 'iIl all the shores
Vi ID. ST. Lawrence seemed one vas.
a1o s. 1a. .I.mpMent These mss.,.,i
al '." r.nI./ DHs about the punv e,t-
t'ia o.. Montreal in such numbers
thH' I'D HmpaIson. the white poDu-
iato. moi erifrut. Then had
ll'.' been Pontiac or a Tecumsob