![]() ![]() There might be new wars, floods, conflagrations, epidemics, but the colonists would never know of them until next summer. ![]() Not a letter, even-no news of what went on at home. No supplies not a cask of wine or a sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools. This was October not a sail would come up that wide waterway before next July. Now for eight months the French colony on this rock in the North would be entirely cut off from Europe, from the world. Published by Good Press, 4066338074034 Table of ContentsĪs long as La Bonne Espérance was still in sight, many of Auclair's friends and neighbours had kept him company on the hill-top but when the last tip of white slid behind the curving shore, they went back to their shops and their kitchens to face the stern realities of life. ![]()
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