Hamilton found it impossible to send him reinforcements however, and he was forced to do the best he could without them; but he succeeded well in his endeavors to organize troops, as he found the creole militia very willing to serve, and the Indians extremely anxious to attack the Americans.

Others settled in St. Louis, or some other of the little creole towns, and joined the parties of French traders who ascended the Missouri and the Mississippi to barter paint, beads, powder, and blankets for the furs of the Indians.

Creole dusk; a New Orleans novel of the 80's.

He was succeeded in the government of the creole province by Don Estevan Miro, already colonel of the Louisiana regiment.

He also established very friendly relations with the Spanish captains of the scattered creole villages across the Mississippi, for the Spaniards were very hostile to the British, and had not yet begun to realize that they had even more to dread from the Americans.

His handsome featuresall the more striking for the dark complexion of a mulattohis prodigious physical strength, his elegant creole figure, with hands and feet as small as a woman's, his unrivalled skill in bodily exercises, and especially in fencing and horsemanship, all marked him out as one born for adventures.

"You can take them away," he said to the waiter, and then added to the horrified French creole gentleman who presided, "I never eat insects of any kind."

His bold front and confident bearing, and the prompt decision of his measures, had once more restored confidence among the French, whose spirits rose as readily as they were cast down; and he was especially helped by the creole girls, whose enthusiasm for the expedition roused many of the more daring young men to volunteer under Clark's banner.

One of the latter was the son of a creole lieutenant in Clark's troops, and after much pleading his father and friends procured the release of himself and his comrade.

CHAPTER LIX WHERE SOME CREOLE MONEY GOES

Any attempt to estimate this creole population perforce contains much guess-work.

I was only wishing that our milkman in town would keep a cow!" When Horace Greeley was candidate for the presidency, he at one time visited New Orleans, whose old creole residents gave him a dinner; and to make it as fine an affair as possible, each of the many guests was laid under contribution for some of the rarest wines in his cellar.

It was well known that one Creole slave was worth two Africans; and their interest, therefore, must suggest to them, that the propagation of slaves was preferable to the purchase of imported negroes, of whom one half very frequently died in the seasoning.

The amusements of a winter, in this latitude, are said to be rather novel, with their dog trains and creole sleighs.

Most of the creole townspeople received Clark joyfully, and rendered him much assistance, especially by supplying him with powder and ball, his own stock of ammunition being scanty.

The creole traders of these villages, and an occasional venturous American, had gone up the Mississippi to the country of the Sioux and the Mandans, where they had trapped and hunted and traded for furs with the Indians.

A creole trapper from the Wabash was then living in a cabin on the south side of the river.

A West Indian hurricane could not have been quicker on its feet than our little cyclone, and when the house rose a-tiptoe, like a cockerel in act to crow, and a sixty-foot elm went by the board, and that which had been a dusty road became a roaring torrent all in three minutes, we felt that the New England summer had creole blood in her veins.

The leaders of society were the Spanish civil and military officers, who, with little prospect of returning to the Peninsula, married wealthy creole women and made the island their home.

"General," she began, ignoring his inquiryand, with all her Creole bows, smiles, and insinuating phrases, the severity of her countenance but partially waned"I came to see my physicianyour son.

For example, a creole boy was carried off at the age of 13; at 26 he returned to Buenos Ayres, on some speculation of barter.

It never had been a colony, there was no creole class, and the only indigenous populationthe "jíbaros," the mixed descendants of Indians, negroes, and Spaniardswere too poor, too illiterate, too ignorant of everything concerning the outside world to look with anything but suspicion upon the invitations of the insurgents of Colombia and Venezuela to join them or imitate their example.

Rocheblave, the creole commandant, was sincerely attached to the British interest.