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In 1597 the English ship " Chancewell " came 
to grief in the usually safe harbour and was 
wickedly pillaged by the French fishermen 
settled along the coast. Captain Leigh, com- 
mander of the " Chancewell," tells us that 
" there came aboard many shallops with great 
store of Frenchmen, who robbed and spoiled all 
they could lay their hands on, pillaging the poor 
men even to their very shirts, and using them 
in savage manner ; whereas they should rather 
as Christians have aided them in their distress." 
In 1629, two armed ships of France, the 
" Great St. Andrew " and the " Marguerite," 
occupied the harbour, and their crews, aided 
by their English prisoners, built a fort to com- 
mand the entrance. This fort was armed with 
eight cannon, 1800 pounds of powder, pikes, 
and muskets, and was garrisoned by forty 
men. The arms of France and of Cardinal 
Richelieu were raised over its walls, and a 
chapel was erected. But before the close of 
the winter, disaster thinned the ranks of the 
garrison ; more than a third of the troops died 
of scurvy, and to add to the confusion the 
commandant assassinated his lieutenant on the 
parade-ground. Later, an Indian mission was 
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