1696.] PEMAQUID ATTACKED. 379 



at Boston that they came to Pemaquicl, and opened 

 a conference with Chubb. The French say that 

 they meant only to deceive him. 1 This does not 

 justify the Massachusetts officer, who, by an act of 

 odious treachery, killed several of them, and cap- 

 tured the chief, Egeremet. Nor was this the only 

 occasion on which the English had acted in bad faith. 

 It was but playing into the hands of the French, who 

 saw with delight that the folly of their enemies had 

 aided their own intrigues. 2 



Early in 1696, two ships of war, the " Envieux" 

 and the " Profond," one commanded by Iberville 

 and the other by Bonaventure, sailed from Koche- 

 fort to Quebec, where they took on board eighty 

 troops and Canadians; then proceeded to Cape 

 Breton, embarked thirty Micmac Indians, and 

 steered for the St. John. Here they met two 

 British frigates and a provincial tender belonging 

 to Massachusetts. A fight ensued. The forces 

 were very unequal. The " Newport," of twenty- 

 four guns, was dismasted and taken ; but her com- 

 panion frigate along with the tender escaped in the 

 fog. The French then anchored at the mouth of the 

 St. John, where Villebon and the priest Simon were 

 waiting for them, with fifty more Micmacs. Simon 

 and the Indians went on board ; and they all sailed 

 for Pentegoet, where Villieu, with twenty-five 

 soldiers, and Thury and Saint- Castin, with s some 



1 Villebon, Journal, 1694-1606. 



2 N. Y. Col. Docs., IX. 613, 616, 642, 643 ; La Potherie, III. 258 ; Cal- 

 ieres au Ministre, 25 Oct., 1695 ; Rev. John Pike to Governor and Council, 7 



Jan., 1694 (1695), in Johnston, Hist, of Bristol and Bremen; Hutchinson, 

 Hist. Mass., II. 81, 90. 



