. The poets' New England. mselves to cattle and sheep along shore. Thestory is told that one man remonstrated upon the lossof his cattle, when the British officer said to his men:Take this Yankee rebels oxen into his parlor andkill and dress them there,—and so it was done. To add to the complexity of the situation in Acadia,there were two Frenchmen, Charles Etienne La Tour,a Protestant, and M. DAulney de Chamisse, aCatholic, who carried on a feud worthy of mediaevalEurope, and made things as unpleasant for Pema-quid as the piratical Dixie Bull had done. They hadboth been granted titles to much
. The poets' New England. mselves to cattle and sheep along shore. Thestory is told that one man remonstrated upon the lossof his cattle, when the British officer said to his men:Take this Yankee rebels oxen into his parlor andkill and dress them there,—and so it was done. To add to the complexity of the situation in Acadia,there were two Frenchmen, Charles Etienne La Tour,a Protestant, and M. DAulney de Chamisse, aCatholic, who carried on a feud worthy of mediaevalEurope, and made things as unpleasant for Pema-quid as the piratical Dixie Bull had done. They hadboth been granted titles to much land in Acadia, andupon the death of their superior officer. GeneralRazUly, a bitter rivalry sprang up between them. LaTour was intrenched at St. John, and received aidfrom the English colonists; and DAulney at Cas-tine, Maine, not far from Pemaquid, with the Frenchand Indians to help him. History records that theferocious contest between these two unscrupulous ri-vals raged with more or less violence for twelve years,. Hi THE POETS NEW ENGLAND 131 and produced effects not a little detrimental to thesettlement at Pemaquid and all others on the enormous wrongs were committed uponinnocent people living in the neighborhood, by theirexploits; angry menaces occasionally thrown out,could not but excite the apprehension of the personsliving so near as Pemaquid. This was before the sec-ond fort was built. Consequently there was no pro-tection from these feudal chiefs, as Parkman hascalled them. The incident in the lives of these twomen chosen by Whittier, is the one most capable ofheroic poetic treatment, namely, the defense ofLa Tours castle by his wife from an attack ofDAulney. In the spring of 1645 DAulney learned thatLa Tour was absent from his garrison; he proceededthen to attack it. On the way he met a New Englandvessel, and made a prize of her, in utter disregard ofa treaty he had just made with the English colonists,and turned the crew ashore on a distant isl
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