Hayes River

What pirate ship this was may be guessed from what happened three weeks later.

Early in September the two vessels reached the Hayes River, which Radisson had named twelve years before and where he had set up the arms of the English king.

Advancing fifteen miles upstream, they chose a winter harbor, leaving Groseilliers to beach the boats and erect cabins.

Radisson and young John Chouart canoed farther up to the rendezvous of the Cree and the Asseniboine Indians.

This is the man we have wished for since the days of our fathers, shouted the chief of the Asseniboines as he danced and tossed arrows of thanks to the gods.

When the voyagers glided back downstream on the glassy current, other sounds than those of Indian chants greeted them.

The Hayes River, as we have seen, is divided from the Nelson on the north by a swampy stretch of bushwood.

Across the swamp boomed and rolled to their astonished ears the reverberation of cannon.

What pirate ship this was may be guessed from what happened three weeks later.

Early in September, the two vessels reached the Hayes River, which Radisson had named twelve years before and where he had set up the arms of the English king.

Advancing 15 miles upstream, they chose a winter harbor, leaving Grosselliers to beach the boats and erect cabins.

Radisson and young John Shewart canoed farther up to the rendezvous of the Cree and the Assiniboine Indians.

This is the man we have wished for since the days of our fathers, shouted the chief of the Assiniboines as he danced and tossed arrows of thanks to the gods.

When the voyagers glided back downstream on the glassy current, other sounds that those of Indian chants greeted them.

The Hayes River, as we have seen, is divided from the Nelson on the north by a swampy stretch of bushwood.

Across the swamp boomed and rolled to their astonished ears the reverberation of cannon.