Certainly honour prevented them from yielding to the Company's demands; but how much misery! what a terrible future if it was necessary to persist much longer! and without declaring for submission he damped their courage, he showed them the settlements dying of hunger, he asked on what resources the partisans of resistance were counting.
Certes, l'honneur défendait de céder aux exigences de la Compagnie; mais, que de miseres! quel avenir terrible, s'il fallait s'obstiner longtemps encore! Et, sans se prononcer pour la soumission, il amollissait les courages, il montrait les corons mourant de faim, il demandait sur quelles ressources comptaient les partisans de la résistance.