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http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,394.2 | 1,408.4 | disgust with an enterprise whose unripened fruits had proved so hard and bitter or discontent at finding himself reduced to a post of subordination in a country which he had discovered and where he had commanded | 14.2 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000000 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,481.41 | 1,495.23 | he with his crew had devoured them on the voyage alleging that in their belief the inmates of port royal would all be dead before their arrival choice there was none and port royal must be abandoned | 13.82 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000001 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 669.23 | 683.22 | there was fear that the indians learning their misery might finish the work that scurvy had begun none of them therefore were allowed to approach the fort and when a party of savages lingered within hearing | 13.99 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000002 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 968.26 | 986.59 | they were now within the limits of a group of tribes who were called by the french the armouchiquois and who included those whom the english afterwards called the massachusetts they differed in habits as well as in language from the etechemins and miemacs of acadia for they were tillers of the soil | 18.33 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000003 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,373.51 | 1,391.64 | but de monts gained his point he was made lieutenant-general in acadia with viceregal powers and withered feudalism with her antique forms and tinselled follies was again to seek a new home among the rocks and pine-trees of nova scotia | 18.13 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000004 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 862.07 | 873.32 | and as they entered they beheld blazoned over the arch the arms of prance circled with laurels and flanked by the scuteheons of de monts and poutrincourt | 11.25 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000005 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 733.47 | 745.61 | who fled before their spectral assailants and vanished in the woods thus observes lescarbot did thirty-five thousand midianites fly before gideon and his three hundred | 12.14 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000006 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,154.57 | 1,165.55 | the french in the vessel opened fire champlain's arquebuse burst and was near killing him while the indians swift as deer quickly gained the woods | 10.98 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000007 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 799.68 | 815.37 | the war in brittany was over the rebellious duc de mercaeur was reduced to obedience and the royal army disbanded champlain his occupation gone conceived a design consonant with his adventurous nature | 15.69 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000008 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 873.32 | 888.01 | the ingenious author of these devices had busied himself during the absence of his associates in more serious labors for the welfare of the colony he explored the low borders of the river equille or annapolis | 14.69 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000009 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 683.22 | 700.35 | cartier forced his invalid garrison to beat with sticks and stones against the walls that their dangerous neighbors deluded by the clatter might think them engaged in hard labor these objects of their fear proved however the instruments of their salvation | 17.13 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000010 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 788.79 | 799.68 | and henry the fourth out of his own slender revenues had given him a pension to maintain him near his person but rest was penance to him | 10.89 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000011 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 261.63 | 278.72 | they crowded about the visitors crying for delight touching their beards feeling their faces and holding up the screeching infants to be touched in turn the marvellous visitors strange in hue strange in attire with moustached lip and bearded chin | 17.09 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000012 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 321.98 | 332.52 | france lescarbot describes his emotions at finding himself on an element so deficient in solidity with only a two-inch plank between him and death | 10.54 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000013 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,165.55 | 1,178.97 | several of the tribe chanced to be on board the vessel but flung themselves with such alacrity into the water that only one was caught they bound him hand and foot but soon after humanely set him at liberty | 13.42 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000014 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,476.47 | 1,487.38 | the viceroy's company was of a mixed complexion there were nobles officers soldiers sailors adventurers with women too and children | 10.91 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000015 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 305.77 | 321.98 | thus a month was lost at length on the thirteenth of may sixteen o six the disorderly crew were all brought on board and the jonas put to sea poutrincourt and lescarbot had charge of the expedition de monts remaining in france | 16.21 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000016 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 345.88 | 357.53 | they were two months on their way and when fevered with eagerness to reach land they listened hourly for the welcome cry they were involved in impenetrable fogs | 11.65 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000017 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,457.95 | 1,476.47 | and here an incident befell which the all-believing thevet records in manifest good faith and which stripped of the adornments of superstition and a love of the marvellous has without doubt a nucleus of truth i give the tale as i find it | 18.52 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000018 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,441.3 | 1,457.95 | here and in the neighboring town of st malo where also he had a house he seems to have lived for many years roberval once more set sail steering northward to the straits of belle isle and the dreaded isles of demons | 16.65 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000019 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 380.82 | 399.24 | drove her off the coast and chased her back towards france meanwhile the convicts watched in suspense for the returning sail days passed weeks passed and still they strained their eyes in vain across the waste of ocean la roche had left them to their fate | 18.42 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000020 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,226.49 | 1,244.88 | and the order that he brought out of the chaos of american cartography for it was a result of this and the rest of his voyages that precision and clearness began at last to supplant the vagueness confusion and contradiction of the earlier map-makers | 18.39 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000021 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,016.67 | 1,029.53 | on reaching france he repaired to court and it may have been at this time that a royal patent raised him to the rank of the untitled nobility he soon wearied of the antechambers of the louvre | 12.86 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000022 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 333.96 | 351.13 | at length on the gray horizon they descried a long gray line of ridgy sand it was sable island off the coast of nova scotia a wreck lay stranded on the beach and the surf broke ominously over the long submerged arms of sand | 17.17 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000023 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 952.21 | 970.29 | of an evening when not engrossed with his garden he was reading or writing in his room perhaps preparing the material of that history of new france in which despite the versatility of his busy brain his good sense and capacity are clearly made manifest | 18.08 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000024 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,495.23 | 1,513.6 | built on a false basis sustained only by the fleeting favor of a government the generous enterprise had come to naught yet poutrincourt who in virtue of his grant from de monts owned the place bravely resolved that come what might he would see the adventure to an end | 18.37 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000025 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,178.97 | 1,192.98 | champlain who we are told delighted marvellously in these enterprises had busied himself throughout the voyage with taking observations making charts and studying the wonders of land and sea | 14.01 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000026 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,192.98 | 1,209.2 | the horse foot crab seems to have awakened his special curiosity and he describes it with amusing exactness of the human tenants of the new england coast he has also left the first precise and trustworthy account | 16.22 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000027 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,487.38 | 1,501.5 | of the women some were of birth and station and among them a damsel called marguerite a niece of roberval himself in the ship was a young gentleman who had embarked for love of her | 14.12 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000028 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 587.7 | 604.93 | behind it and near the water was a long covered gallery for labor or amusement in foul weather champlain and the sieur d'orville aided by the servants of the latter built a house for themselves nearly opposite that of de | 17.23 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000029 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 905.5 | 915.78 | his appearance gave so little promise of personal vigor that some of the party assured him that he would never see france again and warned him to husband his strength | 10.28 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000030 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 576.39 | 587.7 | on the right was a spacious house well built and surmounted by one of those enormous roofs characteristic of the time this was the lodging of de | 11.31 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000031 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 560.52 | 576.39 | soldiers sailors and artisans betook themselves to their task before the winter closed in the northern end of the island was covered with buildings surrounding a square where a solitary tree had been left standing | 15.87 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000032 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,000.91 | 1,016.67 | here more than two centuries and a half ago his bold and active mind conceived the plan of a ship-canal across the isthmus by which lie says the voyage to the south sea would be shortened by more than fifteen hundred leagues | 15.76 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000033 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 367.46 | 380.82 | to which in due time he proposed to remove the prisoners but suddenly a tempest from the west assailed him the frail vessel was forced to run before the gale which howling on her track | 13.36 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000034 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 316.56 | 328.11 | the chief of the nation was borne before them on a deerskin by a number of his tribesmen a bedridden old savage paralyzed and helpless squalid as the rest in his attire | 11.55 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000035 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,209.2 | 1,226.49 | they were clearly more numerous than when the puritans landed at plymouth since in the interval a pestilence made great havoc among them but champlain's most conspicuous merit lies in the light that he threw into the dark places of american geography | 17.29 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000036 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 888.01 | 905.5 | here in the solitude he saw great meadows where the moose with their young were grazing and where at times the rank grass was beaten to a pulp by the trampling of their hoofs he burned the grass and sowed crops of wheat rye and barley in its stead | 17.49 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000037 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,531.14 | 1,550.76 | membertou was full of grief at the departure of his friends he had built a palisaded village not far from port royal and here were mustered some four hundred of his warriors for a foray into the country of the armouchiquois dwellers along the coasts of massachusetts new hampshire and western maine | 19.62 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000038 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 549.35 | 560.52 | amused themselves with detaching the limpets from the stones as a savory addition to their fare but there was little leisure at st | 11.17 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000039 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,550.76 | 1,570.03 | one of his tribesmen had been killed by a chief from the saco and he was bent on revenge he proved himself a sturdy beggar pursuing pontrincourt with daily petitions now for a bushel of beans now for a basket of bread and now for a barrel of wine to regale his greasy crew | 19.27 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000040 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 357.53 | 368.23 | suddenly the mists parted the sun shone forth and streamed fair and bright over the fresh hills and forests of the new world in near view before them | 10.7 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000041 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,029.53 | 1,040.17 | it was here however that his destiny awaited him and the work of his life was unfolded aymar de chastes commander of the order of st john and governor of | 10.64 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000042 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,425.25 | 1,441.3 | thus closed the third canadian voyage of this notable explorer his discoveries had gained for him a patent of nobility and he owned the seigniorial mansion of limoilou a rude structure of stone still standing | 16.05 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000043 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 981.86 | 1,000.91 | his west-indian adventure occupied him more than two years he visited the principal ports of the islands made plans and sketches of them all after his fashion and then landing at vera cruz journeyed inland to the city of mexico on his return he made his way to panama | 19.05 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000044 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 915.78 | 934.44 | but he knew himself better and set at naught these comforting monitions he was the most diligent of workers he made gardens near the fort where in his zeal he plied the hoe with his own hands late into the moonlight evenings the priests of whom at the outset there had been no lack | 18.66 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000045 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 855.58 | 869.68 | peace returned but francis the first was sinking to his ignominious grave under the scourge of his favorite goddess and chabot patron of the former voyages was in disgrace | 14.1 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000046 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 934.44 | 952.21 | had all succumbed to the scurvy at st croix and lescarbot so far as a layman might essayed to supply their place reading on sundays from the scriptures and adding expositions of his own after a fashion not remarkable for rigorous catholicity | 17.77 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000047 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,513.6 | 1,531.14 | even should it involve emigration with his family to the wilderness meanwhile he began the dreary task of abandonment sending boat-loads of men and stores to canseau where lay the ship jonas eking out her diminished profits by fishing for | 17.54 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000048 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 278.72 | 290.57 | with arquebuse halberd helmet and cuirass seemed rather demigods than men due time having been allowed for this exuberance of feminine rapture | 11.85 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000049 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 306.08 | 316.56 | then appeared a troop of women each bringing a mat with which they carpeted the bare earth for the behoof of their guests the latter being seated | 10.48 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000050 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 351.13 | 367.46 | stretched far out into the sea on the right hand and on the left here la roche landed the convicts forty in number while with his more trusty followers he sailed to explore the neighboring coasts and choose a site for the capital of his new dominion | 16.33 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000051 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 332.52 | 345.88 | off the azores they spoke a supposed pirate for the rest they beguiled the voyage by harpooning porpoises dancing on deck in calm weather and fishing for cod on the grand bank | 13.36 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000052 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 880.64 | 897.16 | though a man of high account in his own province his past honors paled before the splendor of the titles said to have been now conferred on him lord of norembega viceroy and lieutenant-general in canada hochelaga | 16.52 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000053 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 843.95 | 855.58 | the war flamed forth with renewed fury and ten years elapsed before a hollow truce varnished the hate of the royal rivals with a thin pretence of courtesy | 11.63 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000054 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 399.24 | 411.7 | rueful and desperate they wandered among the sand-hills through the stunted whortleberry bushes the rank sand grass and the tangled cranberry vines which filled the hollows | 12.46 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000055 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 290.57 | 306.08 | the warriors interposed banished the women and children to a distance and squatted on the ground around the french row within row of swarthy forms and eager faces as if says cartier we were going to act a play | 15.51 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000056 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 965.87 | 981.86 | and the faith which was the life of his hard career was somewhat prone to overstep the bounds of reason and invade the domain of fancy hence the erratic character of some of his exploits and hence his simple faith in the mexican griffin | 15.99 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000057 | |
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http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 897.16 | 913.66 | newfoundland belle isle carpunt labrador the great bay and baccalaos to this windy gift of ink and parchment was added a solid grant from the royal treasury with which five vessels were procured and equipped | 16.5 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000059 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 869.68 | 880.64 | meanwhile the ominous adventure of new france had found a champion in the person of jean francois de la roque sieur de roberval a nobleman of picardy | 10.96 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000060 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,570.03 | 1,588.23 | memberton's long life had not been one of repose in deeds of blood and treachery he had no rival in the acadian forest and as his old age was beset with enemies his alliance with the french had a foundation of policy no less than of affection | 18.2 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000061 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,588.23 | 1,600.53 | in right of his rank of sagamore he claimed perfect equality both with poutrincourt and with the king laying his shrivelled forefingers together in token of friendship between peers | 12.3 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000062 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,279.48 | 1,291.41 | it was on the north side of the basin opposite goat island and a little below the mouth of the river annapolis called by the french the equille and afterwards the dauphin | 11.93 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000063 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,541.98 | 1,553.99 | yet not so for the demon lords of the island beset them day and night raging around their hut with a confused and hungry clamoring striving to force the frail barrier | 12.01 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000064 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 412.25 | 427.7 | we did stretch out our hands as it were to take them so palpable were they which i have admired a thousand times since it was noon on the twenty-seventh when the jonas passed the rocky gateway of port royal basin | 15.45 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000065 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 654.79 | 665.16 | their labors over poutrincourt set sail for france proposing to return and take possession of his domain of port royal | 10.37 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000066 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 989.25 | 1,006.02 | at the southeast corner was the arched gateway whence a path a few paces in length led to the water it was flanked by a sort of bastion of palisades while at the southwest corner was another bastion on which four cannon were mounted | 16.77 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000067 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,408.97 | 1,424.01 | patents granted and revoked monopolies decreed and extinguished had involved the unhappy traders in ceaseless embarrassment de monts however preserved de chastes's old company and enlarged it | 15.04 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000068 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 56.35 | 66.43 | scarcely were they at sea when ministers and priests fell first to discussion then to quarrelling then to blows | 10.08 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000069 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 447.49 | 466.79 | five years elapsed and of the forty only twelve were left alive sand sea and sky there was little else around them though to break the dead monotony the walrus would sometimes rear his half-human face and glistening sides on the reefs and sand-bars at | 19.3 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000070 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 700.35 | 713.13 | cartier walking one day near the river met an indian who not long before had been prostrate like many of his fellows with the scurvy but who was now to all appearance in high health and spirits | 12.78 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000071 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,280.86 | 1,292.82 | then returned to their boats crossed to the south shore of the st lawrence and languid with the heat rested in the shade of forests laced with an entanglement of grape-vines | 11.96 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000072 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 383.24 | 398.17 | finally upon saturday the fifteenth of july about two o'clock in the afternoon the sky began to salute us as it were with cannon-shots shedding tears as being sorry to have kept us so long in pain | 14.93 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000073 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,052.95 | 1,068.93 | in his darkest hour when the hosts of the league were gathering round him when friends were falling off and the parisians exulting in his certain ruin were hiring the windows of the rue st antoine to see him led to the bastille | 15.98 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000074 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,244.88 | 1,255.97 | at nausett harbor provisions began to fail and steering for st croix the voyagers reached that ill-starred island on the third of august | 11.09 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000075 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,024.18 | 1,038.67 | except the garden-patches and the cemetery the adjacent ground was thickly studded with the stumps of the newly felled trees most bountiful provision had been made for the temporal wants of the colonists | 14.49 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000076 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,600.53 | 1,612.83 | calumny did not spare him and a rival chief intimated to the french that under cover of a war with the armouchiquois the crafty veteran meant to seize and plunder port royal | 12.3 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000077 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 417.82 | 428.01 | yet cannon were landed on it a battery was planted on a detached rock at one end and a fort begun on a rising ground at the other | 10.19 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000078 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 815.37 | 833.24 | he would visit the west indies and bring back to the king a report of those regions of mystery whence spanish jealousy excluded foreigners and where every intruding frenchman was threatened with death here much knowledge was to be won and much peril to be met | 17.87 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000079 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 745.61 | 759.73 | the french buried their dead comrades but as they chanted their funeral hymn the indians at a safe distance on a neighboring hill were dancing in glee and triumph and mocking them with unseemly gestures | 14.12 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000080 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 411.7 | 430.17 | not a tree was to be seen but they built huts of the fragments of the wreck for food they caught fish in the surrounding sea and hunted the cattle which ran wild about the island sprung perhaps from those left here eighty years before by the baron de lery | 18.47 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000081 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 328.11 | 340.75 | and distinguished only by a red fillet inwrought with the dyed quills of the canada porcupine encircling his lank black hair they placed him on the ground at cartier's feet | 12.64 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000082 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,006.02 | 1,024.18 | on the east side of the quadrangle was a range of magazines and storehouses on the west were quarters for the men on the north a dining-hall and lodgings for the principal persons of the company while on the south or water side were the kitchen the forge and the oven | 18.16 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000083 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 913.66 | 927.27 | and to cartier was given the post of captain-general we have resolved says francis to send him again to the lands of canada and hochelaga which form the extremity of asia towards the west | 13.61 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000084 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 42.86 | 56.35 | de monts with one of his vessels sailed from havre de grace on the seventh of april sixteen o four p with stores for the colony was to follow in a few days | 13.49 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000085 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 952.6 | 968.65 | the machinery of conversion was of a character somewhat questionable since cartier and roberval were empowered to ransack the prisons for thieves robbers and other malefactors to complete their crews and strengthen the colony | 16.05 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000086 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 466.79 | 480.58 | at length on the far verge of the watery desert they descried a sail she stood on towards the island a boat's crew landed on the beach and the exiles were once more among their countrymen | 13.79 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000087 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,003.12 | 1,022.55 | they had a fort of palisades on a rising ground by the saco for they were at deadly war with their neighbors towards the east on the twelfth the french resumed their voyage and like some adventurous party of pleasure held their course by the beaches of york and wells | 19.43 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000088 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 111.1 | 125.01 | the morning air was chill and sharp the leaves were changing hue and beneath the oaks the ground was thickly strewn with acorns they soon met an indian chief with a party of tribesmen | 13.91 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000089 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,040.17 | 1,052.95 | a gray-haired veteran of the civil wars wished to mark his closing days with some notable achievement for france and the church to no man was the king more deeply indebted | 12.78 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000090 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,527.67 | 1,541.98 | her gallant threw himself into the surf and by desperate effort gained the shore with two more guns and a supply of ammunition the ship weighed anchor receded vanished and they were left alone | 14.31 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000091 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 940.17 | 952.6 | a pious design held doubtless in full sincerity by the royal profligate now in his decline a fervent champion of the faith and a strenuous tormentor of heretics | 12.43 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000092 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,612.83 | 1,623.26 | precautions therefore were taken but they were seemingly needless for their feasts and dances over the warriors launched their birchen flotilla and set out | 10.43 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000093 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_14_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,068.93 | 1,085.28 | de chastes without condition or reserve gave up to him the town and castle of dieppe thus he was enabled to fight beneath its walls the battle of arques the first in the series of successes which secured his triumph | 16.35 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000094 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,514.99 | 1,527.67 | landed his indiscreet relative gave her four arquebuses for defence and with an old norman nurse named bastienne who had pandered to the lovers left her to her fate | 12.68 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000095 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_15_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 1,266.16 | 1,279.48 | and thither he resolved to remove stores utensils even portions of the buildings were placed on board the vessels carried across the bay of fundy and landed at the chosen spot | 13.32 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000096 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 927.27 | 940.17 | his commission declares the objects of the enterprise to be discovery settlement and the conversion of the indians who are described as men without knowledge of god or use of reason | 12.9 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000097 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_13_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 340.75 | 357.3 | and made signs of welcome for him while he pointed feebly to his powerless limbs and implored the healing touch from the hand of the french chief cartier complied and received in acknowledgment the red fillet of his grateful patient | 16.55 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000098 | |
http://www.archive.org/download/pioneers_of_france_in_new_world_0908_librivox1/pioneers_16_parkman_64kb.mp3 | 970.29 | 989.25 | now however when the whole company were reassembled lescarbot found associates more congenial than the rude soldiers mechanics and laborers who gathered at night around the blazing logs in their rude hall port royal was a quadrangle of wooden buildings enclosing a spacious court | 18.96 | 3967 | 2816 | chunk_0200_row_10000099 |
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