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that the company fhe came with had fourfcore Canoo's : 

 & that there was more of them, whom (lie had not feen, 

 which came from other Places, and that they told her when 

 they came all together, fhould make up 700 Men. He 

 ask'd her, Whether Cajleen^ was with them? She an- 

 fwered, That there was feveral French Men with them, 

 but fhe did not know whether [61] Cajleen was there or 

 not. He then having got what intelligence fhe could give 

 him, went afhore and viewed the Fort and Town, difcour- 

 hng with the Gentlemen there according to his Inftruftions ; 

 and when it began to grow dark, he ordered the VefTels to 

 come as near the Fort as might be, and Land the Soul- 

 diers, with as little noife as poffible; ordering them as they 

 Landed to go into the Fort and Houfes that ftood near, 

 that fo they might be ready upon occafion; having ordered 

 Provifions for them, went to every Company and ordering 



8i Baron Vhtcent de St. Cajlin was 

 born near the Pyrenees, and became a 

 man of wealth and eminence, and an 

 officer in the body-guard of the King 

 of France. He arrived at Quebec 

 about 1665 ; and, the regiment which 

 he commanded having been difbanded, 

 he felecl:ed the pine-clad peninfula of 

 Biguatus, in Acadie, as his refidence, 

 where he erecTied a fortified habitation, 

 and for over a quarter of a century 

 carried on an extenfive and profitable 

 trade, fhipping merchandile from 

 France, and exchanging it with the 

 Indians for furs. La Hontan eftimated 

 his profits at 200,000 to 300,000 crowns. 

 He himfelf teftified that 80,000 livres 



could be annually realized atPenobfcot 

 from the beaver trade. He married 

 the daughter of Madockaivando, chief 

 of the Tarratines ; and, being a zealous 

 Catholic, gave the Englilh great trouble 

 from his inftigation -of, and aid to, the 

 enemy in Indian wars. The Englifh, 

 on the other hand, at different times, 

 ufed him very hardly. He went to 

 France in 1701, and probably never re- 

 turned. His fon, by his Indian wife, 

 continued to reiide at Penobfcot, and to 

 be influential among the savages. The 

 prefent town of Caftine marks the 

 fpot. [ia Hontan, i : 471 ; Tibierge's 

 Mem. Acadie, 1 O&l., i6%i_Me. Hijt. 

 Coll. vi : 110-113.] 



