The Pine-tree coast . t long enough for its return to a state of nature. At the end ofthis period some of the refugees ventured back totheir broken hearthstones, but upon the renewal ofhostilities, in Queen Annes time, the place was againattacked in August, 1703, by a war-party of Frenchand Indians, who a second time laid it waste, oncemore driving the settlers from their homes. This second depopulation continued until the re-turn of peace. In 1719 the Cape settlejnent wasre-established with the name of Arundel, so supersed-ing the old one given to it nearly, if not quite, ahundred years befor
The Pine-tree coast . t long enough for its return to a state of nature. At the end ofthis period some of the refugees ventured back totheir broken hearthstones, but upon the renewal ofhostilities, in Queen Annes time, the place was againattacked in August, 1703, by a war-party of Frenchand Indians, who a second time laid it waste, oncemore driving the settlers from their homes. This second depopulation continued until the re-turn of peace. In 1719 the Cape settlejnent wasre-established with the name of Arundel, so supersed-ing the old one given to it nearly, if not quite, ahundred years before. Short breathing-time was allowed these impover-ished people for repairing the ravages of war. Love-wells War presently brought down upon them a newtrain of calamities. Anticipating that the enemywould first strike in this exposed quarter, the colonialauthorities now exhorted the people to stand firm and fight it out to the it been accompanied with the means proper to its execution, the advicewas CHEESE-PRESS. 108 IlIK riXE-TKEE COAST. In August, the Indians again began their okl work of slaughter at theCape. When they first showed themselves, the garrisons were so weaklymanned that even the Avomen put on mens clothes and took their txirns atmounting guard, in order to deceive the enemy.* The story is noAV less picturesque, though far more gi-atetul to nariute, tliauthe previous chapter of strife and bloodshed. The towu presently voted tobuild a meeting-house, but, as its historian niiively remarks, the matter wasput off until the shock of an eartlu|uake — by much the most frightful thathad happened within the memory of man — brought it u]) again.
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