Their name and fame are lost forever.
"And is this all?
an earthen pot, A broken spear, a copper pin Earth's grandest prizes counted in-- A burial mound ?--the common lot." THE GAY FRENCHMAN.
Then the conversation turned upon the early Frenchmen, who came to the West during the days of French Canada, before Wolfe took Quebec.

"Oh! I have no doubt they would make a great ado," said the old patriarch, "when they came here.

The French, you know, are so fond of pageants.

But beyond a few rumors among the old Indians far up the Assiniboine River of their remembrance of the crosses and of the priests, or black robes, as they call them, I have never heard anything; these early explorers themselves left few traces.

When they retired from the country, after Canada was taken by Wolfe, the Indians burnt their forts and tried to destroy every vestige of them.