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men, (who were) Basques and Normans. All that being set agoing, he came with a large crew to find me, at Saint Pierre in the Island of Cap Breton. He told me he had come to inform me of the concession of the Com- pany. He gave me an account of his plan, the means that he would take to make his business successful, and all his supposed great profits. Finally, I asked him if he had not other means than those. He answered that this was infallible, and that it could not turn out other- wise. “I am easy in mind,” said I to him, “through knowing your intentions ; I am now undisturbed; I shall never have the trouble of going to chase you away from a concession which the Company has no power to grant you, since it has put me in possession of it more than ten years ago. In three years you will leave it ruined by the expense, and your associates there will lose every- thing they have put into it.” I took leave of him, and let him do it. He went away at the end of two years, as I had predicted to him, his company being disheartened by the losses in which this clever man had involved them.°

But if Denys had no occasion to worry about Doublet he was to meet with sterner opposition from Sr. de La Giraudiere who appears to have secured a grant of Canseau from the Company of New France about the same time as Doublet. In 1667 he arrived in Canseau with 100 men, but after threaten- ing Denys and capturing St. Peters, an arrangement was arrived at whereby the question of ownership should be submitted to the Company.° It decided in

5 Pub. Champ. Soc., No. 2, pp. 343-344. 8 [bid., pp. 102-105.