The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-13

Loud from its rocky caverns the deep voiced
neighboring ocean
Speaks, and In accents disconsolate answers
the wall of the forest.
This Is the forest primeval.
Primitive. like their forest home, was
the life of the pioneers who selected Acadia
as a field for adventure and profit While
the Puritans were creating wooden town
around the board meeting house on 'Tri-
mount" hill in Boston the handful of white
deuizens in New France roamed the woods
like Indians and subsisted on wild fruits
and game. Emissaries from the luxurious
courts of France to the settlements at the
mouth Of the st. Lawrence were lodged I'M
der bough shelters and banqueted off ber-
ries and forest birds and fish on natures
carpets of leaves and MOSES One of the
Acadian feudal lords who set up to be the
peer of the good Puritan governors, Win
throp and Endicott, was Charles Saint
Etienne de la Tour, settler on the St.
John. La Tour at one time held the right
to be called lieutenant general ofthe French
| king and commander for the company of
| New France The right was disputed, and
! his desire to make it good and perpetrate it
gave the whole body of European colonists
| in North America no end of trouble and
certain people closely interested no end of
| fighting and excitement.
For more than 20 years in the carly part
of the seventeenth century France and Eng
| land alternately held sway in the North
| American settlements, and in 1921 the adj
| herents of James had seized all of Acadia
excepting little kingdom of rocks, break
ers and islets on Cape Sable point That was
| La Tours retreat. With him We're a hand
| full of French and the braves of 100 lroquois
Indian families, whose wild life he had
| shared from boyhood. After several at
tempts to Gust the Acadian squatter by
| force, King James viceroy, Sir William
| Alexander, brought diplomacy to bear. La
| Tours father, Claude de la Tour, was q.
prisoner to the English, having been cap
tured while on voyage to France. The
| English court conferred on him the title of
| baronet and sent him forth from England
with two warships filed with soldiers to
seduce his son from French allegiance by
| f1attery and honors or bring him to terms
| by force. The two La Tours were to be
baronets of Nova Scotia with cession of all
rights and titles in Acadia, providing the
son would join the father in fealty to King
James. The ships anchored off the fort
which guarded the shores of Cape Sable,
and the father made known his errand to
his son. NO" replied young La Tour. 81
shall remain true to my own country and
my own king, and under these present con
| ditions you must allow me to give orders
that neither you nor your lady may enter
the fort"
| The old gallant had brought out from
London new young bride, an English
woman who was deep in the plot to win
over the susceptible Frenchman. The baf-
| fled ambassador then wrote an aflectionate
letter begging his son to reconsider. This
| appeal also fell fiat, and the lord of Cape
Sable declared that he would hold his do
main against the world. At this the Eng
fish commander opened a furious attack ON
sea and land. After two days fighting La
Tour held the fort, and the English sailed
away to their own port.
The next move affecting Acadia was the
cession by England of all its Canadian ter
ritory to France by the treaty of St. Ger