The Pine-tree coast . ould be sunk at their anchors, the French sailorsthen cut their cable, which caused them to drift out of thefire. To meet this manoeuvre, Argall, the English com-mander, quickly wore round and gave them another broad-side, which decided the combat. Brother du Thet fell acrossthe tiller, with a musket-ball through the Flory andseveral others were wounded. The French then cried outthat they surrendered, and firing ceased. Argall made equally quick work of the colonists were carried off captives to Virginia, and some sufferedto make their way back to Port
The Pine-tree coast . ould be sunk at their anchors, the French sailorsthen cut their cable, which caused them to drift out of thefire. To meet this manoeuvre, Argall, the English com-mander, quickly wore round and gave them another broad-side, which decided the combat. Brother du Thet fell acrossthe tiller, with a musket-ball through the Flory andseveral others were wounded. The French then cried outthat they surrendered, and firing ceased. Argall made equally quick work of the colonists were carried off captives to Virginia, and some sufferedto make their way back to Port Royal as they could, withthe warning not to be again found trespassing on Englishground. The hopes of the founders of this colony were thuscompletely wrecked. Its brief life and sudden overthrow,the swiftness with which the action passed, leaves us in doubt to this day whatspot of ground was thus consecrated by the blood of its founders. It is truethat up to the time that the island became famous, nobody seems to have. G] 1(10.). 294 THE PINE-TREE COAST. thought the matter worth wasting time upon. The incident itself was hardlyremembered ; nor can local tradition lift the veil. The English of that day seemed equally determined to obliterate everythingthat might serve to identify the island with French occupation or establisha claim; so when the Boston colonists of 1630 sighted this island as their firstland, they were told it was called Mount Mansell,4 and Governor Winthrop hasset down in his Journal how a pigeon flew on board the ship, like another dovereturning to the Ark, to tell them that the dry land had once more risen fromthe sea ; and how the sweet air, wafted to them from the shore, was like thesmell of a garden, and did much refresh them. From this time down to the middle of the eighteenth century, Mount Desertwas given over to its primitive solitude, broken only by the rude encampments of wandering savages who came to fish, or hunt the moose,or mustered t
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