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arrived towards the end of April, and were received 

 with all possible distinction. There were speeches, 

 gifts, and feasting ; for they had clone much, and 

 were expected to do more. Portneuf sang a war- 

 song in their language ; then he opened a barrel 

 of wine: the guests emptied it in less than fifteen 

 minutes, sang, whooped, danced, and promised to 

 repair to the rendezvous at Saint-Castin's station of 

 Pentegoet. 1 A grand war-party was afoot ; and a 

 new and withering blow was to be struck against 

 the English border. The guests set out for Pente- 

 goet, followed by Portneuf, Desiles, La Brognerie, 

 several other officers, and twenty Canadians. A 

 few days after, a large band of Micmacs arrived ; 

 then came the Malicite warriors from their village 

 of Medoctec ; and at last Father Baudoin appeared, 

 leading another band of Micmacs from his mission 

 of Beaubassin. Speeches, feasts, and gifts were 

 made to them all ; and they all followed the rest 

 to the appointed rendezvous. 



At the beginning of June, the site of the town 

 of Castine was covered with wigwams and the 

 beach lined with canoes. Malecites and Micmacs, 

 Abenakis from the Penobscot and Abenakis from 

 the Kennebec, were here, some four hundred war- 

 riors in all. 2 Here, too, were Portneuf and his 

 Canadians, the Baron de Saint-Castin and his Indian 

 father-in-law, Maclockawanclo, with Moxus, Egere- 

 met, and other noted chiefs, the terror of the Eng- 

 lish borders. They crossed Penobscot Bay, and 

 marched upon the frontier village of Wells. 



1 Villebon, Journal de ce qui s'est passd a I'Acadie, 1691, 1692. 



2 Frontenac au Ministre, 15 Sept., 1692. 



