The trade in those parts belongs to France." "We were taken prisoners, and so it was that I came to see Montreal and afterwards Quebec.

In the end we were sent back because they did not know what they could do with us." "It was a good journey for a first." "And ever since I have been trading--first, on the Kennebec with the Abenaquis, in the great forests of Maine, and with the Micmac fish-eaters over the Penobscot.

Then later with the Iroquois, as far west as the country of the Senecas.

At Albany and Schenectady we stored our pelts, and so on to New York, where my father shipped them over the sea." "But he could ill spare you surely ?" "Very ill.

But as he was rich, he thought it best that I should learn some things that are not to be found in the woods.