The Pine-tree coast . CANADIAN EQUIPPED FOR A WINTERS MARCH. A RAMBLE IN OLD YKK. .... bullet-proof, while the inmates could be doing deadly execution upon theirassailants through the Loopholes piercing the walls. Rude fortn they were, yet of >i;-,rnal use in repelling just such attack-, as the one we have now narrated. A tew resolute nr desperate men succeeded in breaking through their assail-ants, and so gaining the shelter either of Alcocks, Harmons, NortonsPrebles garrison The enemy summoned them all to surrender, hut being metwith a stern defiance, they drew off without venturing to at
The Pine-tree coast . CANADIAN EQUIPPED FOR A WINTERS MARCH. A RAMBLE IN OLD YKK. .... bullet-proof, while the inmates could be doing deadly execution upon theirassailants through the Loopholes piercing the walls. Rude fortn they were, yet of >i;-,rnal use in repelling just such attack-, as the one we have now narrated. A tew resolute nr desperate men succeeded in breaking through their assail-ants, and so gaining the shelter either of Alcocks, Harmons, NortonsPrebles garrison The enemy summoned them all to surrender, hut being metwith a stern defiance, they drew off without venturing to attack. Except thesefour every house in the village was burned to the ground. At the time of this massacre, Shubael Dummer, the minister of York, liveddown at the seaside, not far from Roaring Rock. He was shot down at hisown door, in the act of mounting his horse. His wife and son were carried off. JUNKIN8 GARRISON-, SCOTLAND. captives with the rest, ami Mather pithily says that -one of the hell hounds*strutted about among the prisoners dressed in the clothes he had stripped fromthe dead body of his victim. These Indians belonged to the missions of Father Tinny at Penobscot, andFather Bigot at Kennebec, by whom the expedition had been set on foot, be-fore dividing their plunder, these pious savages sang the Te Deum for theirvictory. They also chanted matin and vesper service while on the march those worthy fathers had strictly charged them not to omit the sacred officesof religion even while cutting the throats of the innocent ami the helpless, A boy four years old, called Jeremiah Moulton, who escaped the massacre,afterwards grew up to lead an avenging hand against this same Kennebec tribeand mission, and exterminated both. York Harbor may be said to have succumbed to the devastating hand of 56 THE PINK-TREE COAST. improvement. All these modern cottages in the places wh
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