Heralds of Empire

BEING

THE STORY OF ONE RAMSAY STANHOPE

Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade

BY

A. C. LAUT

AUTHOR OF LORDS OF THE NORTH

TORONTO, CANADA
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1902

Entered according to Act of the
Parliament of Canada in the year 1902
By A. C. LAUT
at the Department of Agriculture

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DEDICATED

TO

THE NEW WORLD NOBILITY

——Now I learned how the man must havefelt when he set about conquering the elements,subduing land and sea and savagery. And in that liesthe Homeric greatness of this vast fresh New Worldof ours. Your Old World victor takes up theunfinished work left by generations of men. Your NewWorld hero begins at the pristine task. I pray you,who are born to the nobility of the New World, forgetnot the glory of your heritage; for the place whichGot hath given you in the history of the race is onewhich men must hold in envy when Roman patricianand Norman conqueror and robber baron are asforgotten as the kingly lines of old Egypt.——

CONTENTS

PART I