His kindly English friends wanted to lend him more, but he declined it.
"You can pay us back in Quebec," said White.
"I don't need it," replied Robert, "but I'll keep the rendezvous there with you both." As the _Hawk_ was to stay two or three days in port in order to take on supplies, they went ashore together, and the three were full of curiosity when they entered, for the first time, the town of which they had heard so much.

Boston had already made such impress upon the imagination that all the English colonists were generally known to the French in Canada as Bostonnais.

In England it had a great name, and there were often apprehensions about it.

It was the heart and soul of the expedition when the New Englanders surprised the world by taking the great French fortress of Louisbourg, and it had an individuality and a personality which it has never lost.
"I don't know how I'm going to like it," said Captain Whyte, as they left the sloop.

"I hear that they're very superior here, and consider us English a rather backward lot.