With his accession to the ranks of the voyageurs real progress in the field of colonization was for the first time assured.
In any case the ranks of the voyageurs included those who had the best and most virile blood in the colony.
Voyageurs ready to undertake these tasks there were in plenty, and all of them found in the Iron Governor a stalwart friend.
The voyageurs relieved the tedium of their long journeys by breaking into song at intervals.
But the Norman voyageurs of the New World did things quite differently.
Other explorers and voyageurs of his generation there were in plenty, and their service was not inconsiderable.
A few of the voyageurs found that one trip to the wilds was enough and never took to the trade permanently.
And all this time the hardy voyageurs who were boatmen for Captain Lewis would be urging their craft forward with the skill and ability peculiar to their kind.
It would have been a sad joke on the boys had they managed in some manner to outstrip the soldiers and voyageurs with Captains Lewis and Clark, and in this way gone ahead of them.
Canadian voyageurs as they thrust their paddles against the shore and push out on the broad lake for a journey through the wilderness.
While Pierre was thus engaged there were at least ten voyageurs similarly occupied.
Shut the door now, and lock it" said Peter, in an authoritative tone, after eight or ten youngvoyageurs had crushed into the space in front of the counter.
These latter, however, were only shot when they came inadvertently within rifle-range, as our voyageurs had a definite object in view, and could not afford to devote much of their time to the chase.
Voyageurs do not require to have their food pressed upon them after a hard day's work.
Why, I thought I heard the voyageurscall your wife the white swan.
While travelling through the wilds of North America in boats, voyageurs always make a point of landing to breakfast.
Such was the state of things in Red River one beautiful morning in April, when a band of voyageurslounged in scattered groups about the front gate of Fort Garry.
The voyageurs were collected, as we have said, in groups.
A wild scene of drunkenness and debauchery amongst the voyageursfollowed the arrival of the troops in Winnipeg'.
The men who went out to the North-west as voyageurs and servants in the employment of the rival companies from Canada and from Scotland hardly ever returned to their native lands.
For the first time since their departure the voyageurswere enabled to don dry clothing, with the assurance that they could remain dry and comfortable throughout the day.
The voyageurs were returning from Eskimo Bay with their second cargo of winter supplies for the trails.
It was, then, with a feeling of intense satisfaction and relief that the voyageurshailed the end of their journey, with its promised rest, when they finally ran their boat to the landing below the river tilt of the Big Hill trail.
These latter, however, were only shot when they came inadvertently within rifle range, as our voyageurs had a definite object in view, and could not afford to devote much of their time to the chase.
Shut the door now, and lock it," said Peter, in an authoritative tone, after eight or ten young voyageurs had crushed into the space in front of the counter.
The Café des Voyageurs was crowded when he reached it, and he had some difficulty in finding a seat.
The voyageurs succeeded in shooting a number of the birds, made a stew of some, and buried the rest, unplucked, in ashes and hot sand.
He was amazed at the quantity of scalding hot, black stuff the voyageurs could drink.
He can endure hunger like an Indian," Louis returned, "and one of the voyageurs in Laroque's boat has been sharing his food with him.
With a crew of voyageurs he would not dare act so.
After the boats had been tracked through, the voyageurs delayed for the scrubbing and hair trimming that preceded their approach to the dwellings of men.
Rumors of the approach of the Sioux had reached the Governor, and he had sent a detachment of DeMeurons and voyageurs to meet the Indians and prevent them from going on to Fort Douglas.
Heretofore the voyageurs had done part of that work.
Laroque assigned the voyageurs to watches, and cautioned each man to walk the beach while on guard and keep an eye on wind and waves.
By the time camp was pitched, both voyageurs and settlers were not only tired and hungry, but usually wet and chilled to the bone.
It's not the policy of the Company to sendvoyageurs out to trade, especially on such long trips.
Those who had not taken service with the Company to go as voyageurs to Fort York, neglected their primitive gardening to prepare for the great buffalo hunt.
It's against the Company's policy to send voyageurs out to trade.
That the voyageurs and their friends would celebrate hilariously, the Swiss had expected, but not that such wild revels would take place within the fort walls, where lived the Governor and his household.
They sang as they bent to their paddles, as voyageurs of old.
The reports showed 750 of all ranks, including thevoyageurs left in charge of the river squadron.
The voyageurs clapped their hands and laughed aloud.
William Henry Harrison had trusted to influence the Indians and the voyageurs in the troubled times before the War of 1812; the one who could go back and forth with negotiations to the Indians' Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe.
While his captors stood rigid in shadow, while the voyageurs shook with nervous chill, while Vigo glanced wildly here and there, Doby stared at this curious feast which could so undo strong men.
The clever voyageurs steered between trees and around stones as the truant flood bore them headlong to almost certain destruction.
With the simplicity of little children, the voyageurs folded their hands and said their prayers; they crossed themselves; then lifted up their voices in such a hymn that the valley resounded with their praise.
One of the hardy voyageurs turned green and ghastly under his tan and his knees doubled under him.
Vigo and the two voyageurs were in the same plight.
Younger business men now held the fur trade in their own hands, but the voyageurs continued their practice of holiday regatta to greet this white-haired man.
And one by one, as they stepped ashore, the voyageurs ran up the slope to greet him--the hero of their hearts!
There is a belief among the hunters and voyageurs that this lake has its tides like the ocean.
Notwithstanding all this, our voyageurs knew that it would be the best place for them to make their winter camp.
Amidst just such scenes did our voyageurs find themselves on the seventh day after parting from the lake.
While this process was going on our voyageurs collected around the fire, and entered into a consultation about what was best to be done.
To attempt it would have been madness, and our voyageurs soon came to this conclusion.
There is, in fact, no part of the world where a greater variety of wild fruit has been found indigenous than upon the banks of the Red River of the North, and this variety extended to the little island where our voyageurs had encamped.
The trees were large, and as there was much underwood, consisting of berry-bushes and plants with edible roots, our voyageurs did not doubt that there would be found game in abundance.
The following year brought a party of voyageurs to help in the defence of Quebec against Admiral Phipps.
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Many of them are constantly employed as voyageurs between Norway House and York Factory; and none perform the trip more expeditiously, or render their cargoes in better condition than they.
It is now occupied as a petty post, a few Indians and two or three old voyageurs being the sole representatives of the crowded throngs of former times.
The Indians attached to the posts established along the shores of Hudson's Bay are comparatively civilized; most of them speak English, and are employed as voyageurs by the Company.
The voyageurs then struck up one of the famous chansons by which they beguiled the lonely waterways, and with their dashing paddles, hastened away to the interior.
Accordingly, Lachine became the port of departure for the voyageurs on their long journeys up the Ottawa, and on to the distant fur country.
The voyageurs give to the last the name 'Pot au beurre.
When the Pacific slope was reached, and the voyageurs saw the waters begin to run away from the country with which they were acquainted, their fears were aroused, and it was natural that they should be unwilling to proceed further.
Verendrye and his little band of unwilling voyageurs started inland from the shore of Lake Superior.
The superstitious voyageurs relate that old Breboeuf, who had gone as priest with the early French explorers, had been badly injured on the portage by the fall of earth and stones upon him.
The voyageurs give to this liquor store the name 'Cantine Salope.
As such a story was told on the edge of a shadowy forest the voyageurs were filled with dread.
First came the bark canoe, quick to build, light to carry round the frequent gaps in navigation, and large enough to hold the few voyageurs or the rich-in-little peltry that were chief cargo in early days.
On passing the point the men ceased rowing, and proceeded to solace themselves with a five-minutes' pipe--an indulgence which voyageurs always claim as their due after a long spell at the oars or paddles.
The villagers were there, saying farewells, and all the voyageurs who were soon to go out in other brigades snuffed as war-horses ready for the charge.
Owen made haste to pass this carnival of invocation and plunge into the swarming main street of Mackinac, where a thousand voyageurs roved, ready to embrace any man and call him brother and press him to drink with them.
As the canoe came to a standstill the voyageurs rolled their paddle-handles along the gunwales, twirling the dripping blades and enveloping the canoe in a veil of whirling spray.
With every brigade went the wife of one of the voyageurs to attend to the mending of the voyageurs' clothing and to look after the comfort of the officer in charge.
At one of the fires a French half-breed was singing in a rich barytone one of the old chansons that were so much in vogue among the voyageurs of by-gone days--À la Claire Fontaine.
Last night they had danced both hard and long, with dusky maids--as all true voyageurs do on the eve of their departure.
The loading of freight began, and when each canoe had received its allotted cargo the voyageurs indulged in much handshaking with their friends, a little quiet talking and affectionate kissing with their families and sweethearts.
Most of the voyageurs received "advances" from the clerk in the way of clothing, knives, pipes, and things deemed essential for the voyage.
The voyageurs puffed and panted as they went by, and no wonder--the portage was three quarters of a mile in length.
But the voyageurs always had to do their own cooking and washing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voyageurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
