High, on the southern bank of the Illinois, about midway between Ottawa and La Salle, the French explorer La Salle, assisted by his lieutenant Henri de Tonty and a few Canadian voyageurs and Illinois Indians, established (in December 1682) Fort St Louis, about which he gathered nearly 20,000 Indians, who were seeking protection from the Iroquois. [Please select]
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But tow-ropes were for the endless up-river journey, when a numerous crew strained day after day along the bank, chanting the voyageurs' songs. [Please select]
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Even the voyageurs' song,-- 'Brothers, we go to the Scarlet Hills, (Little gold sun, come out of the dawn.') [Please select]
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By now the voyageurs had turned their canoe over, slid it into the water, and piled the duffle amidships. [Please select]
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With his accession to the ranks of the voyageurs real progress in the field of colonization was for the first time assured. [Please select]
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Voyageurs ready to undertake these tasks there were in plenty, and all of them found in the Iron Governor a stalwart friend. [Please select]
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Other explorers and voyageurs of his generation there were in plenty, and their service was not inconsiderable. [Please select]
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In any case the ranks of the voyageurs included those who had the best and most virile blood in the colony. [Please select]
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Nicholas Perrot, when he left Montreal for Green Bay in 1688, took with him one hundred and forty-three voyageurs. [Please select]
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What race of landlubbers could vie with the picturesque bands of fearless voyageurs who sang their songs on the Great Lakes, the Ohio, the Illinois, and the Mississippi. [Please select]
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