Berigord listened to all he had to say, and at first did no more than blow tobacco smoke hard before him.

"Let me see the chart," he said at last, and, scrutinising it carefully, added: "Yes, yes, 'tis right enough.

I've been in the port and up the river.

But neither we nor the Eng lish'll get a handful of gold or silver thereabouts.

'Tis throwing good money after none at all." "The money is mine, my captain," said Iberville good-humouredly.