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

Ydyhag Biasdis Excuxs1oo to ~ xsnr
nsbee IN ISL.
E1iSoys Of ~ kenassss Jssvnai:
There are In the archives Of Ffsnee ard
Rome many papers relating 10 the early oc-
eupssion BY Europeans Of the eosse Of
Maine. Emhalmed in the Preach ianssaee
ard buried in those repositories are multi
'utes Of facts and incidents beior gipg 70
sise twilight era Of Maine history. Some
Of these have already been exhamed. and
make interesting snd thrilling chsrsefs in
he early history Of our State.
Az the beginning Of the seventeenth cen
sury there uas race between France and
Enzlsrd for the possession of North Amer
iez. Two r<ig hb0Yipg mouarchs laid claim
70 . confir ens that vas then covered With
fore.ss and inhabited by barbarians. Henry
the Fourth was the first to begin 10 parcel
f, out. by giving to Pierre du Qua Monte in
1903 all Of the territory between the for
'.-th and forty-sixth degrees Of north lai-
uis. Monts fastened to take possession
II bis vast domain. and In 1914 accom-
panied BY Samuel Champlain founder Of
q .. bee 5000. landed on an island 10 Pas
aassquodiy bay. They Banned the bland
". lrvix IL 10 from twelve to fifteen
,rres in slxs, and 10 new called Neutral
Island, b inf CO the boundary between
MAJ = and NV Bruns~iek- There the
rty bulk hsbita'iJns, mounted cannon for
4 teaer snd sosed grain, and thers
fr h. ffst time on the coast Of future
NJ .ipe . compsny Of Europeans passed
tn. wirer. This was the urst Attemp' by
IA. French 4. lon x4tipn in New
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savage. the holy sacrament Of the Mass
~. sailed from Port ROYAL in the fall OF
lGll " tn Bi.ncourt Who was then vice ad
nnral of New France and the representa-
~. Of French .u h,ritv in Acadia Tn.
nur,o,. of the VOYAGE was TO meet such
vessel. or adventures a. mieh, be ON tn.
coast 40 as to receive their rrcosnit on OF
hi. authority and also to procure q supply
,t food If possible for the comm
.,,ter After visiting the island O.
+ 81, Croix where Capt. Plaster wa
,o;on,niny and the St. John rive,