32/53 Can you do nothing with this sullen giant, Tandakora, who has such influence over them ?" "I fear not, sir. He was with me on the expedition from which I have just returned, and he fared ill. He is like a bear that will hide in the woods and lick its hurts until the sting has passed. I think we may consider it certain, sir, that they will desert us, for the time." "And we shall have but little more than three thousand French and Canadians to defend the honor of France and His Majesty's great colony in North America. |