[Footnote 47: The same mistake was destined to be made in later days, more than once, under the English regime.] [Footnote 48: "La Canardiere (the name given to the flats where the New Englanders landed) was in those days nothing but a horrible marsh, covered with impenetrable woods thickly fringed with underbrush. So dense was the thicket that in full daylight our skirmishers were invisible to the English, who in their exasperation had nothing to guide them in firing but the smoke of their enemies' muskets."--Myrand, _Sir William Phipps devant Quebec_, p. 271.] [Footnote 49: _Premier Etablissement de la Foi_, vol. ii. p. 434. As Leclercq is the one authority of importance of whom Mr. Myrand, in his discussion of this matter, makes no mention, his exact words, which I have not elsewhere seen reproduced, may be quoted: "L'amiral le suivit (le contre-amiral) d'assez pres et avec precipitation; il fila tout le cable de son ancre qu'il abandonna; son pavillon fut emporte dans la riviere et laisse a notre discretion, que nos gens allerent pecher."] [Footnote 50: In his work already quoted, _Sir William Phipps devant Quebec_, Mr. Myrand goes very carefully, and in a spirit of great impartiality, into the question of the probable losses on the New England side. Those on the Canadian side he is able to establish by means of authentic records. Mr. Myrand has laid his readers under great obligations by reprinting the principal original documents bearing on the Phipps expedition, as well as by his own intelligent discussion of the whole episode.] CHAPTER XI FIRE AND SWORD ON THE BORDER