270 DEFENCE OF QUEBEC. [1690. 



English officers asked their prisoner, Granville, 

 what it meant. " Ma foi, Messieurs," he replied, 

 " you have lost the game. It is the governor of 

 Montreal with the people from the country above. 

 There is nothing for you now but to pack and go 

 home." In fact, Callieres had arrived with seven 

 or eight hundred men, many of them regulars. 

 With these were bands of coareurs cle bois and other 

 young Canadians, all full of fight, singing and 

 whooping with martial glee as they passed the 

 western gate and trooped down St. Louis Street. 1 



The next clay was gusty and blustering ; and still 

 Phips lay quiet, waiting on the winds and the waves. 

 A small vessel, with sixty men on board, under Cap- 

 tain Ephraim Savage, ran in towards the shore of 

 Beauport to examine the landing, and stuck fast in 

 the much The Canadians plied her with bullets, 

 and brought a cannon to bear on her. They might 

 have wadecl out and boarded her, but Savage and 

 his men kept up so hot a fire that they forbore 

 the attempt; and, when the tide rose, she floated 

 again. 



There was another night of tranquillity ; but at 

 about eleven on Wednesday morning the French 

 heard the English fifes and drums in full action, 

 while repeated shouts of " God save King William ! " 

 rose from all the vessels. This lasted an hour or 

 more ; after which a great number of boats, loaded 

 with men, put out from the fleet and rowed rapidly 

 towards the shore of Beauport. The tide was low, 

 and the boats grounded before reaching the land- 



1 Juchereau, 325, 326. 



