Il8                       HISTORY  OF  BRUIT'S
essary, and Brul6 acted as such. Capitulation followed.1
" Thirteen of the French colonists, looking perhaps on the change as a deliverance, as Charlevoix intimates, were induced to live under the English rule. Of these, there were seven who were of importance to the victors, because of their woodcraft and experience with the Indians." Brule" was severely censured afterwards for having aided the English vessels to ascend to Quebec, thereby helping materially to the surrender of the place; but he knew that capitulation would save the occupants from starvation.2
After most of its inhabitants had dispersed in the forests for food, Quebec surrendered. England thus gained her first supremacy upon the great river of Canada.
The terms of the capitulation were that the French were to be conveyed to their own country; and each soldier was allowed to take with him furs to the value of twenty crowns.3 As some had lately returned from the Hurons with peltry of no small value, their loss was considerable. The French prisoners, including Champlain, were conveyed across the ocean by Kirk, but their arrival in England was after a treaty of peace had been
'Charlevoix says (see Shea's translation, vol. II, p. 50): " Kertk [Kirk] then landed at Quebec and took possession of the fort, then of the warehouse, the keys of which he committed to one Le Baillif, of Amiens, who had gone over to the enemy with three other Frenchmen,— Stephen Brule, of Champigny; Nicholas Marsolet, of Rouen; and Peter Raye, of Paris."
* See Appendix, Note XX.
8 For the terms of the treaty in full, see Smith's Canada, vol. I, p. 22.