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     But on the eve of promotion the much-tried vet- 
     
     eran went down with fever. In April, 1733, he wrote 
     
     the Minister that the assurance of promotion aided 
     
     his recovery, and that he hoped to return to his com- 
     
     mand, but if the King should allow him to retire on 
     
     the usual pension he would be content after thirty- 
     
     six years of service.” Even as Lieutenant de Roi life 
     
     in the colony left much to be desired, as the lodgings 
     
     were out of commission, the surgeon was in a state of 
     
     poverty, and the chaplain had only the ornaments 
     
     of a chapel, being compelled to use an old house left 
     
     standing by the Company of Comte de Saint Pierre 
     
     and to conduct the daily services without even 
     
     candles. 
     
    

    
     On June 2, 1733, his long-deferred hope was real- 
     
     ized and he was made Lieutenant de Roi, though the 
     
     number of his garrison was still to remain at thirty 
     
     men. However, his salary was increased to 1400 
     
     livres by an annual gratuity of 600 livres in addi- 
     
     tion to the 800 which he had hitherto received as 
     
     nominal major of a company in Ile Royale.? A few 
     
     days later he was about to embark on the middle 
     
     passage, when his illness returned and he was again 
     
     delayed, finally arriving at Louisburg on August 14, 
     
     more dead than alive. With fine courage he deter- 
     
     mined to set out for Port La Joye on the twentieth, 
     
     but not without a further protest against conditions 
     
     awaiting him there: “If I were not thinking of the 
     
     good of the service, I would refuse to set out from 
     
    
   
   
    
     211 IV, Vol. 14, p. 201. 
     
     8B, Vol. 592, p. 464; C11 IV, Vol. 14, pp. 3, 81.