Volume 1

194 ONE FEU-DE-JOIE, ONE BIRTH, THREE MURDERS.
them. They eat the old scabby bulls we kill for our diversion.
28th. Three of our horses died. The cold is very
severe ; snow deep, and no grass.
Mar. jd. Finding the poplar stockades were neither
strong nor durable, I set all my men to work cutting oak
stockades to make a new fort. ^th. Mr. Cameron arrived
from Grandes Fourches. A large wolf came into my
tent three times, and always escaped a shot. Next day,
while hunting, I found him dead about a mile from the
fort ; he was very lean and covered with scabs, yth. We
made a feii-de-joie with the H. B. Co., whose houses at
Grand Passage burned, with their baggage, and roasted
the meat of 10 cows in their storehouse— fine sport for the
wolves and crows. 12th. Pierre's [Bonza's] wife was
delivered of a daughter—the first fruit at this fort, and a
very black one.
Mar. i^th. In a drinking match at the Hills yesterday,
Gros Bras [Thick Arms] in a fit of jealousy stabbed
Aupusoi to death with a hand-dague [dagger] ;
the first
stroke opened his left side, the second his belly, and the
the third his breast ; he never stirred, although he had a
knife in his belt, and died instantly. Soon after this
Aupusoi's brother, a boy about 10 years of age, took the
deceased's gun, loaded it with two balls, and approached
Gros Bras' tent. Putting the muzzle of the gun through
the door the boy fired the two balls into his breast and
killed him dead, just as he was reproaching his wife for her
affection for Aupusoi, and boasting of the revenge he had
taken. The little fellow ran into the woods and hid.
Little Shell [Petite Coquille] found the old woman, Aupusoi's
mother, in her tent; he instantly stabbed her.
Ondainoiache then came in, took the knife, and gave her
a second stab. Little Shell, in his turn taking the knife,
gave a third blow. In this manner did these two rascals
continue to murder the old woman, as long as there was
any life in her. The boy escaped into Langlois' house,
and was kept hid until they were all sober. Next morning