. The New England magazine . opean the same territory in the name of theenterprise. Icelandic tradition affirms King of France. that the Northmen, voyaging from Ice- The territory now embraced in the land and Greenland, and crossing the state of Maine, thus taken possession ofcomparatively narrow ocean to Labrador, by two rival European powers in entirefollowed the coast southward to Maine, disregard of the rights of the native own-about the year 1000. But dismissing ers, was occupied along the sea-coast anduncertain tradition, there is no doubt that river valley by from the English navigator,
. The New England magazine . opean the same territory in the name of theenterprise. Icelandic tradition affirms King of France. that the Northmen, voyaging from Ice- The territory now embraced in the land and Greenland, and crossing the state of Maine, thus taken possession ofcomparatively narrow ocean to Labrador, by two rival European powers in entirefollowed the coast southward to Maine, disregard of the rights of the native own-about the year 1000. But dismissing ers, was occupied along the sea-coast anduncertain tradition, there is no doubt that river valley by from the English navigator, SebastianCabot, discovered the shores ofMaine and of New England in1498, before any other Europeanhad seen the coast of either of theoriginal thirteen states, and carriedback to Europe intelligence of therich cod fisheries on the banks ofNewfoundland, which for morethan a hundred years thereafter,formed almost the sole connectinglink between Europe and the terri-tory comprised in the North Atlantic States. On Tne Rangeleys,. 548 THE STATE OF MAINE. twenty thousand to thirty thousandIndians, who subsisted on the fish caughtin the rivers, lakes and bays, the cornand beans raised on the intervales andthe game killed in the forests, andclothed themselves withthe skins of the numer-ous fur-bearing animalswhich they Indians, althoughknown by the generalname of Abnakis, andconfederated for thepurpose of defenceagainst the Mohawks,were divided into eightor ten small Captain JohnSmith of Virginia famevisited the Maine coastin 1614, he countedthirty Indian villages,with whose dusky occu-pants he exchangedtrinkets and brightcolored cloth for val-uable furs. Soon after,a fierce war broke outbetween the easternIndians and the Mo-hawks, followed i n1616-19 by a greatpestilence, which re-duced the number ofIndians in Maine toabout ten thousand atthe time of the firstpermanent white settle-ment of the state a fewyears after. The closerelations between theIndian trib
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