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Pioneers in Canada

CHAPTER V
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After a while they gave him guides to take him north into the country of the Hurons.
His further adventures led him to discover Lake Superior and the way thither through the Sault Ste.

Marie, and to reach a place probably not far from the south coast of Hudson Bay, in which there was a copper mine.

Then he explored the Montagnais country north of Quebec, and even at one time (in 1629) entered the service of the English, who had captured Quebec and Tadoussac from the French.

When the English left this region Brule travelled again to the west and joined the Hurons once more.
His licentious conduct amongst his Indian friends seems to have roused them to such a pitch of anger that in 1632 they murdered him, then boiled and ate his body.

But immediately afterwards misfortune seemed to fall on the place.


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