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leave to set out with one laden canoe. When Saint-Pierre found
his monopoly and secured an order to pursue Francois and bring
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the wrong, paid to Francois many compliments, and regretted that
by opposition, could not carry on his trade with success and in
debt. He wrote to the French court a noble appeal for relief:
"I remain without friends and without patrimony...a simple
rank as myself; my younger brother is only a junior cadet. This
done.... There are in the hands of your Lordship resources of
relief. To find ourselves excluded from the West would mean to be
is bitter and to see others secure all that is sweet."
The appeal fell on deaf ears. The brothers sank into obscurity.
seem to have been engaged in military service. Francois was
of Canada the Auguste, a ship laden for the most part with
Among those on board who perished was Pierre de la Verendrye. He
men. Tragedy, unrelenting, had pursued him to the end.
Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, the choice of the Marquis de la
to the elder La Verendrye, himself went only as far as Fort La
sent farther west to find the great mountains and if possible the
ready. He started apparently from Fort Maurepas, on snowshoes,
reached Paskoya on the Saskatchewan (the modern Le Pas) they had
by catching a few fish through the ice. Niverville was.
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