The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-04-09

Loud fromits rocky caverns tho deep voiced
neighboring ocean
Speaks, and I'm accents discons0lato answer
the wall of the forest.
This Is The forest prlmeyal.
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
deni2ens in New France roamed the woods
like Indians aud subssted on wild fruits
and game. Emissaries from the luxurious
courts Of France to the settlements at the
mouth Of the st. Lawrence were lodged un-
der bough shelters and banqueted of ber-
ries and forest birds and fish on natures
carpets Of leaves and mosses. One of the
Acadian feudal lords who set up to be the
peer of the good Puritan governors, Win
throp ana Endcott, was Charles Saint
Etienue de la Tour, settler on the st.
John. La Tour at one time held the right
to be called lieutenant general of the 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 aud excitement
For more than 20 years in the early 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 were a hand.
full of French and the braves of 100 Iroquois
Indian families, whose wild life he had
shared from boyhood. After several at
tempts to oust the Acadian squatter by
force, King James viceroy, Sir William
Alexander, brought diplomacy to bear. I.s
Tours father, Claude de la Tour, was .
prisoner to the English, having been cap
tured while on a voyage to France. The
English court conferred on him the title of
baronet and sent him forth from England
with two warships filled with soldiers to
seduce his son from French allegiance by
fattery and honors or bring him to terms
by force. The two La Tours were to be
baronets OF Nova Scotia with cesson of all
rights and titles in Acadia, providing the
son would join the father in fealty to King
James. The ships anchored of the fort
which guarded the shores of Cape Sable,
and the father made known hs errand to,
Nc ''ii' ~ i'piith louhR LII lOuT. L
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 II new young BRIDE an English
woman who was deep in the plot to win
over the susceptible Frenchman. The baf-
fed ambassador then wrote an aiTectionate
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
lish 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