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foot note, as related by an eye-witness, Levi's aide-de- 

 camp, the Jacobite Johnstone, serving under Montcalm 

 at the battle of the Plains of Abraham : " The Marquis 

 of Montcalm, says Chevalier Johnstone, endeavoring 

 to rally the troops in their disorderly flight, was wounded 

 in the lower part of the belly (1). He was conveyed 

 immediately to Quebec, and lodged in the house of Mr. 

 Arnoux, the King's surgeon, who was absent with Mr. 

 de Bourlamaque ; his brother, the younger Arnoux 



having viewed the wound, declared it mortal 



He begged of Arnoux to be so kind and outspoken as 

 to tell him how many hours he thought he might yet 

 live ? Arnoux answered him that he might hold out 

 until three in the morning ". I may hereafter refer 

 again to the spot where the brave Marquis expired : 

 another disputed point in Canadian history. 



As to the Windsor painting by West, of the death of 

 Wolfe, I have about as much faith in it as Sir Robert 

 Walpole is said to have had in history. That big Indian, 

 depicted by the artist, in a sitting position on the 

 Plains of Abraham and watching disconsolately, the 

 dying General, is quite enough to stamp the whole 

 scene as unreal — a picturesque mise en scdne for 

 effect, invented by the genius of the eminent American 

 painter. Wolfe had no Indian in his ranks, at least 

 history mentions none. 



If any Red-skin lurked in the neighborhood, he must 

 have been one of the Lorette Hurons amongst Mont- 

 calm's auxiliaries ; the chief interest, he would have 

 felt towards the English chieftain, would have been a 

 longing for his red-haired scalp, to add to his savage 

 trophies. 



(1) " It was reported in Canada, that the ball which killed 

 that great, good and honest man, was not fired by an English 

 musket. But I never credited this." (Foot note to Chevalier 

 Johnstone's Dialogues). 



