"Nor am I an Englishman.

I am no man of a world of galleys and brands.

I am a man of America!" "'Tis true what he says," spoke Pembroke.

"'Tis said the minister of Louis was feared to keep these men in the galleys, lest their fellows in New France should become too bitter, and should join the savages in their inroads on the starving settlements of Quebec and Montreal." "True," exclaimed Du Mesne.

"The _coureurs_ care naught for the law and little for the king.