Mazard replied.
"Boys!" exclaimed Raed, looking round to us, and to the sailors, who had gathered about us in some anxiety,--"boys! if we let those fellows yonder board us, in an hour we shall all be close prisoners, in irons perhaps, and down in the hold of that ship.

We shall be carried out to Fort York, kept there a month in a dungeon likely as any way, then sent to England to be tried--for daring to sail into Hudson Bay and trade with the Esquimaux! What say, boys ?--shall we let them come aboard and take us ?" "No, sir!" cried Kit.
"Not much!" exclaimed Donovan.

"We'll fight first!" "Capt.

Mazard," continued Raed, "I'm really sorry to have been the means of placing you in such a predicament.

'The Curlew' will undoubtedly be condemned if seized.