Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-01-23

49, - - 1ssy tsns snA vindinss ~ |
d - eltsa very narov and psfiloss. b. |
d1es elas . hnsdFsd jean sftefvafds this
eaass vsah not have besa reeoncilsd aof
hospiosbls . the rresch. - nany 81 ~
assees would have had that eAsnss .
mech upon sheif hearts- ConseqaenS1y |
Gsd lies saved % BY this considerstioa. |
And for his casse al cap aims shosh re-
ffain IRON being too hassy in deeds With
pefiloss eonss9uences. Nov thea, the ssG-
amoses themselves, pefeeiving the jost sp-
psebensioos which their pespae bed given |
our French took is upon Themselves 70 re-
fusion.
This people appeared to us - thoash
they we're not vicious. although they had
driven away the Engtish Who Wished TO live
among them in the years zoos and 1909
They excused themselves to " TO. this set
and related % 10 the oasRages which they had
received from the English, and 6sstered us,
saying that they loved ~ very much be-
cause they bad heard that " did not close
our doors 70 the savsees - the EDGiish did.
and that re would not drive them from our
table With . blow from club, or let ths ID
be bitten BY our dogs They are not
thieves like the Armouchiquois. and are the
greatest tslkeFs in the world. They do
nothing without it
Father Bard vent to zee them twice
aad (as he did everyshere) praTed to
God in heir presence, and shos ed them the
INA yes aid tokens Of our belief shich the,
kissed willingly. making the sign OF the
cross upoa their chliren whom they
| brought to him that he might bless
'hem, and hearing with great Atten-
non all that lie announced 70 them
The difficulty vas that they had IN
entirely different language, and il vas ns ces-
cary that . savage should act - in'ernreter,
vho knowing very little Of the Christian
| r-li zion, neyerth4 less delivered himself
9TH creii, toward the other savagesi and
| to see bis face and hear his slYw speech
he personased the Doctor (Biard) With
dignity So for good or i'll have related
the story.
| I'VE we're o. the Ksnnebec until the 4th
or 5th Of November. The season vas al
r.ady too far advanced to 20 farther &C.
,rting to our first plan. For this reason
" 3 encourt Sc himself to return. mas
much - he thought il would be better to
endure the winter and its hArdships II Port
r., 81. be'ns there veil lodged and warm;
an h. ping for the pity of God that We
xhi not be lost on The sra in . time OF
tenpe.t among bsrbansns and enemies.
having to fear hunger still more, for our
OWL ms were beginning TO fail, We there
fore directed our course to Pentegoet
(Penobscot) to return to Port Royal"
| Father Bi-ri records another incident
that took place II the Kennebec. The
French met one day six canoes full Of war
riurs descending the river. and ~ neither
party trusted the other. the two encamped
on opposite sides Of the river. In the, even
ing the Indians began 10 sing and dance.
Biard suspected these proceedings to be an
invocation Of the devil. and lin order" he
-, ., 'to thwart this accursed tyrant, made
our people sing few church by INNS. such
~ the safre, the Are Naris Stella, and
Others. But being once in train. and get
ting to the end of their spiritual sopgs,
they fell to singing such others as they
knew, and when these gave out they took
to mimicking the dancing and singing of
the Armouchiquois on the other side Of the
water; and as FreDchmen are naturally
good m.mics, they did it 90 well that the
natives stopped to listen at which our peO
pie stopped too; and hen the indiana be-
gan again. You would have laughed to
hear them, for they were like two ch0irs
answering each other in concert, and you
would hardly have known the real Ar
mouchiquois from the cham ones"
Two years sitter this visit of Biard to the
Kennebec there was an attempt to estab-
fish French colony by the name of st
Sauveur on the island of Mt. Desert. -Four
Jesuits were with the company, two of
whom were Biard and Masse No sooner
was the settlement well established than
Capt. Argall, who was connected with the
English colony in Virginia, sailed no to
where the little village stood by the shore
and destroyed it. killing one of the Jesuits
and two other Frenchmen. This was the
FIRST time that blood was shed between the
English and French on this continent, and
Father Gilbert du Tibet was the first vic
tim. He was buried by his Borrowing
black-robed brethren At the foot of the
great cross that remained standing in the
cen re of the ruined settlement of ST.
Sauveur, where in the thin soil by the eurf-
washed shore his dust still reposes. Biard
was carried to Virginia with other prison
ers, but revisited Acadia briefly the same
season, after which he returned to France
~here he died in 1929. His visit to the
Kennebec was only an excursion and was
without visible result. He made no at
tempt to establish a mission, and no other
missionary followed his trial. The Indian
interpreter employed by him was from the
ST. John river, of the trib. called MalOuins
by the French, and seems to have talked
readily with the kenneb-c Indians. which
indicates that the two tribes at that time
spoke nearly if not quite the same language
and belonged to the same great family and