In their ideas of creation the Crees and the Saulteurs resembled, and the early traders and bushrangers learnt gradually that both nations owned a mythology of no mean proportions.
At the same time the value of the bushrangers to the French regime was considerable in damaging the English on the Bay.
The bushrangers penetrated into the wilderness and intercepted the tribes, whose loyalty to the English was not proof against liquor and trinkets served on the spot, for which otherwise they would have to proceed many weary leagues to the Bay.
But before, however, dealing with the new regime, let us turn for a moment to the Canadian bushrangers and voyageurs thus cut off from their homes and abandoned by their officers and employers.
In 1668 Talon returned to France, taking with him one of those hardy bushrangers (coureurs de bois) who passed nearly the whole of their lives in the interior and in the company of the Hurons.
Their exploits, however, when compared with those of the hardier race of French-Canadian bushrangers were tame enough.
While the affairs of the Company were proceeding tranquilly at home, the conduct and employment of one of these twobushrangers was more enlivening.
Silently and slowly they walked together, and after a time the prince of liars, traitors, adventurers and bushrangers began his account of his position.
But the French bushrangers and sailors watched these proceedings with melancholy dissatisfaction, not, perhaps, as much from patriotic motives as from the frailty of their own tenure.
All of these men were well armed, so that with our three selves we made a garrison quite able to beat off any attack of bushrangers or blacks.
He said something more about not letting the bushrangers get fresh horses; but his words of wisdom were left behind us, for we were off, and I had the wildest ride I ever had in my life.
This was rot; as, if the bushrangers made a stand on reaching their bush, as they were certain to do, they would simply shoot us down from behind cover, one after the other.
First, however, the rifles surrendered by the bushrangers were gathered up, and in their defenseless condition they were marched to the government camp.
Sometimes another shepherd calls here, and we had a visit from thebushrangers last year.
To be stripped of all they had was a serious misfortune but in addition to be made prisoners by the bushrangers was something of which they had not dreamed.
Though Obed Stackpole betrayed no emotion, but was outwardly quiet, his heart sank within him when he saw the bushrangers strung along the road.
I was suspicious at first, for the bushrangers are up to all sorts of tricks, but the news you have brought insures you a welcome.
So you took the opportunity to give the bushrangers legbail, eh?
His curiosity was excited, and peering through the trees he saw the bushrangers and their captives.
Meanwhile, though Fletcher did not know it, the train of bushrangers had steadily advanced to the neighborhood of the place where the government escort were encamped.
The farther we get away from the bushrangers the better.
Then the bushrangers sat down on the ground, and lounged at their ease.
They were making toilsome progress, over the boggy road, when all at once they were confronted by three bushrangersheaded by Fletcher.
But at this point the leader of the bushrangers broke silence.
The bushrangers have robbed and beaten me," said the prostrate man feebly.
The bushrangerstook all we had, and left us penniless.
Whether accident or design had brought these unfortunates to an untimely end, none know; but this ominous appearance seemed to have terrified them even more than the bushrangers themselves.
At this the other bushrangers set up a laugh--a short one.
Nor was it a difficult task to a ready-handed fellow like Flint to splice the traces, which the bushrangers had cut.
And those young men are the diluted second generation of the race I knew in the old days--the pioneers, who feared blacks and bushrangers far less than the "starving unemployed" fear ants.
On the other hand, cannibal blacks and convict bushrangers appeared to be grim facts.
But the plain fact is that most of the bushrangers were infamous wretches for whom hanging was a quite inadequate punishment.
In this the boys imitate as nearly as they can the old hunting down of the bushrangers by the mounted police.
The latest big gang of bushrangers were the Kelly brothers, who infested Victoria.
The bushrangers sally forth and stick up an imaginary coach, or rob an imaginary country bank.
It is a curious fact that when the Australian children assemble to play "Bushrangers and Bobbies," everybody wants to be a bushranger, and the guardian of the law is looked upon as quite an inferior character.
A gang of bushrangers kept this eyrie for many years undiscovered.
It was nearly an hour and a half since Bessie had left, but the bushrangers were still round the table.
They were down as the bushrangers had left them, and she looked back.
A crash of broken wood and glass told them that the bushrangers had found the store-room, and had made short work of bolts and bars.
The Canadian bushrangers appropriated the ways and the customs of the natives.
The bushrangers traveled in gangs of all the way from five to fifteen or twenty, and sometimes more, and each gang was led by the most desperate man among them.
Some of the party burst out laughing, and exclaimed, 'Bushrangers again!
Not infrequently the bushrangers attacked the government escort, and on several occasions they were successful.
They tell a story of a fight between a gang of bushrangers and the police in which the leader of the robbers, known as 'Kangaroo Jack,' was mortally wounded.
The joke was not kept up very long, as the counterfeit bushrangers were not good impersonators, and were speedily detected by their friends.
Some of the others had an instinctive perception that this time the bushrangers were real ones.
I presume you already know about the bushrangers and how they used to plunder the homeward-bound miners.
Even if he could move it and started for the camp, he might be robbed before he got there, as bushrangers infested the country, and he was just as liable to come upon them as upon honest men.
It was impossible to keep their errand a secret, and none of the people dared give them any assistance in consequence of their dread of what the bushrangers might do if they heard of it.
Some of the bushrangers were quite famous for their bravery and daring, and they used to give the police a great deal of hard fighting.
Then the bushrangers ordered the ladies to provide them with refreshments, while one was commanded to sit at the piano and entertain them with music.
A ten-pound bank note was found sticking in a wound in his breast, and evidently the bushrangersput it there, to show that in this instance, at least, their object was revenge and not plunder.
They generally hid their booty in spots known only to themselves, and when any of the bushrangers were captured, the police usually proceeded to draw from them the information as to where their gold was concealed.
Melville at one time had eighty men in his gang, the largest number of bushrangers at any time under a single leader.
Scouts rallied the bushrangers on both sides of the St. Lawrence to Quebec's aid.
The bushrangersthen cast aside all clothing that would hamper, and, pistol in hand, advanced silent and stealthy as wild-cats.
France claims right to this region by virtue of La Salle's explorations sixty years previously, and of all those French bushrangers who have roved the wilds from the Great Lakes to Louisiana.
Crowding round the chimney place to dry their clothes now stiff with ice, the bushrangers learned from the Indian women that Schenectady lay completely unguarded.
Convicts are no longer noticeable, and bushrangers are only known as myths or scourges of historical notoriety.
It might amuse new chums, but it was below the notice of the old trooper, whose business had been for many years to hunt and shoot bushrangers and black-fellows, not to mention his regular duty as flagellator.
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But at other times bloody affrays were common enough between the bushrangers and the mounted police.
Troublesome bushrangers also devastated Tasmania, and when captured, were hanged or sent to the penal settlement at Norfolk Island.
I followed, shouting for Edith and Pierce; for I could not help thinking it possible that thebushrangers might have carried them off.
Let me see,--it was the very day before the bushrangers paid us a visit.
The bushrangers have gone away, and Edith and Pierce are probably hiding somewhere.
Had not the bushrangers carried off so much of our powder, we might have remained another month or two.
This last suggestion of Harry made me feel very anxious, as I had often heard of the atrocities of which bushrangers had been guilty.
Well, there arebushrangers and bushrangers,' said the overseer.
Burglars are unknown, and bushrangers prefer to transact their business chiefly in broad daylight--about the hour of 11 A.
The fear of bushrangers who might attack them for the sake of plunder, and of natives who might massacre them in revenge, kept the scattered settlers in constant terror and trouble.
As the gold was being conveyed from the diggings, escorted by bands of armed troopers, the bushrangers lurked upon the road, treacherously shot the troopers, and rifled the chests.
Cruelty to animals is no duty of mine," declared the sergeant: "let alone my fellowmen, bushrangers or no bushrangers.
And so it fell out that not a shot followed the mounted bushrangers into the night, and that long before the bank shutters were battered in the flying trio were miles away.
There was, however, something in the nature of a muttered altercation between the bushrangerswhen Howie was sent back for more of everything.
His fare was relatively not inferior to that of the legally condemned, whose notorious privileges and restrictions served the bushrangersfor a model.
It was there that Fergus Carrick encouraged tales of the bushrangers as the one cleanly topic familiar in the mouth of the elderly engineer who completed the party.
The Villain-Worshipper There was no more fervent admirer of Stingaree and all bushrangers than George Oswald Abernethy Melvin.
The bushrangers let him curse; not a word did they bandy with him or with each other.
A very many excellentbushrangers are unable to read, rude picture-writing is often used by them, especialy in America.
American bushrangers advocate a long heavy pea-rifle, on the plea of its accurate shooting, and the enormous saving in weight of ammunition when bullets of a small size are used.
Again and again the schemes of the police to capture the bushrangers in various parts of the colony failed, chiefly because they were out-classed in horse-flesh.
Before its occupation by the bushrangers the outer cave, by evident signs, formed a favourite wallaby haunt.
Then, under the beetling crags, the bushrangersturned like hunted wolves, and stood at bay.
The bushrangers had attacked a station not far off, killed the owner, and were now riding towards Captain Brentford's, the major's nearest neighbour and old friend.
So sixteen years rolled peacefully away, until Tom Troubridge returned from a journey up country with news of a great gang of bushrangers being "out.
Visions of bushrangers stood between her and sleep.
It would seem as if he had expected a raid from bushrangers at some time or other in his life.
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