Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-04-25
THE KADUSKAK GIANT,
( TIE TRUTH OF THIS STORY IS VoUCh-D
TOR By -EE EDITORS OF " IDE ANAL
u. WHICH IT ORIGIEALLN 4E.EAR-

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Seventy g. u4rs nilsa Of plao.d lA-s fresh
s....a., lt.otlL.lg o~r .-.o losg a.--du|y
bays md gom.-6l wish q hundred tree
crowned islands. Oyer it, r.ppll-g sUl-
lace swan tic wary Wild fowls, and down
10 its white sand shores came The LLLa-4ea
Lc-sts - drink 81 is l.1...l U4.e-5.
"Ro-.g4o." Was lie 4..4s ot t-c A.a.
white man who looked upon ll.5, tie l@r-
gest area Of fresh water n Eug- scotia.
III the latter part Ct tie sixteenth century
Le traded with tho Indians who lived
along the river HAT runs from this lake 60
| the ocean. De MoLts. commander d the
Elonch colonization ompIi4o II 1904, found
aim =. .L1 --utL Of tie river and robbed
lin of his stores. lie wandered oA .-.o
.-e great forest Al finally 80, o. a
small island uo-r the north end Of this
AXE, and Ii. I@Ls Ike lost spillt las
syo. a.-1s c.GlG - i.4 Ll-e waters I'D
oo-U5l among is surrounding hills.
On the western shore : : Gesp ana uIt-
VOW rapid stream c. channel, which dis
charges into Llks RosigEo. .Ls volume d
w-L5I II tho chain OF lakes l0 tLe NORTH.
This stream cuts tl.u-.l & narrow ridge
Q. iGL.l which larms dan, holding back
the water and raising it many feet above
the lower lake, hence the roaring Tapid!ty
Of tie water, designated Ly the Indians
'Kad-skak," which means "5Creecher."
To tbs north Of this Kaluskak was =
great hardwood LII, rising toward the
sky Ike the dou.e Of some vast edilco,
throwing giant shadows deep down in the
dasky water Of Rosignol On its southeast,
and spreading acres Of reelected forest over
the twilight surface Of the silvery lakes 10
the north and west Here for centuries
ont of memory the wild men Of these reg
ions had buried their dead. The great
baeoLea Lll oaks had never felt the shr.y-
cling lnoke oftAe camp fire OF echoed the
tWalg Of tue hunters bow; the whole hill
was Sacred Ground.
Early in the forenoon oi this twentieth
day OF September, 1895, two canoes, each
containing 4 white man aaI two Indians.
came Up Lake RosignOl and landed at the
/ foot 1f tie hill, L-@r tie north bank ot the
K-dGsA-.E
! The white no. Wsge FEguoLlAeL lately
! l.oM France. They lad come 10 this place
I l.cl. Live. PuU. at the mouth Of the river,
and had the1o secured the services Of tho
Indians, who we.e cid hunters and oXpe-
, fenced guides, to take them up the lakes.
The Indians y ere not long in finding out
that the handsome athletic men whom
they served were not only praetiSed hunts
men, but knsU more than they told about
the locality chosen for the hunting ground.
Fer tLs strangers had themselves selected
tAo place to land, directed where the camp
should lie built, and designated tia rivers
I and lakes and point u land with the nam es
/ by Whi3L they were known to the Indian
people. And though they enjoyed as keen
/ ly Is tLs.r guides the exciting contests
with tie moose which Tie Indians with
| tLe!- long LircAWoud cones WoGll call up
/ jusJ at daydawn. they spent most Of their
! time alone, and often for whole days staid
on the great hill, among the graves under
| the fine old trees, as if in search of some
thing.
One day one of tno Indians who saw
| them thus raking among the dead leaves,
! sai4; Long ago-0ne tiEa-I-Iiau find
EN- here very fine small gun-maybe you
! fndem mother"
The men were ut once eager and fall vi
questions about the gun, ana learned that
it had been picked up by an Indian, then
Chief of the Micmacs, named Alexis, and
that he lived at Liverpool Pouhook, now
called Indian Gardens. 1t was distance
of about nine miles, and they at once set
out for the place.
Far back as tradition ran, this spot had
been fayoTite dwelling place for the red
men OF Acadia. South of it and swarmiug
with fish, ian the great river to the ocean.
| North OF it, 1ecked with wild fowl, was
the majestic Rosignol. East and west
were vast furests filed with moose and
caribou and smaller game. Thus surround
ed and supported, here lived and loved and
died these wild forest dwellogs, now near
ly eZterminated.
The old chief was soon foand and re-
ceived his visitors like one who extends
rather than accepts patronage.
st first he stoidly refused 10 let the
strangers even see the small gun. A rich
present at length persuaded him, and he
brought from its place of safety pistol oI
large caliber, richly noun ted in gold and
silver and mother-in-P pearl, such cs wa.
carried about the middle of the seventeenth
century by the French nobility.
The frearm was in good keeping, and
evidently highly priced BY its.present pos
SCISSOR.
The FreAohmen offered to buy it, at tht
Indians own price, "4Io no sell 'em,
said the CHEF. Gle ind 'em,--lo mine
Maybe man WHO Lose come some day. ther
give en- Lim-no sell nm, not mine -
find 'em."
Seeing hat no persuasion OF none!
could inluce.t-e chief to part Will III
weapon, the Frenchmen said: well,
tell you 4 story, then perhaps you sell IL
the gun"
MAY be-, s..d the Indian, Il give yOl
otter skin, if. good. story; but not sell 20
gun"
"You know" said one of the men, "fol
ty years ago my people, the French, wer
very many in this country thirty thous
and. In September Of that year British me
from Massachusetts,, not soldiers, but vol
unteeEs, commanded By Colonel Winslow
came here, and by telling lies in the king
= name took most Of the people prisoners an
put them on board vessels and landed theI
il strange countries, without food or mon
= ey, so many Of them persisted from want
''At Grand Pre- the people were first TAX
en-, then at Chiglecto, and then at Pol
. Royal. Some Of the people at Port Roya
knew what had been done at Grani
Pre- they held councils. Some wanted t
60 to France in ship then in the harbo.
others wished to go to the woods and It
main concealed until the soldiers had lei
and then return.
Among those who wanted to go in ii
: ship was young man from Paris, name
Pierre Alenoon the youngest son Of Cou1
Alenool Of France. This Young mar was 4
artist. lie had been in this country thre
" years taking sketches and making picture
of the scenery.
r After two years he was ready to retur
10 France; but ct Grand Pre- he made AZ