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- families broken up, maid and lover separated, perhaps forever, perhaps to be brought together as the poet tells us, just as life was ebbing away, only to die together. It is a sad, sad tale. It was a cruel deed that the government did when it decreed that these people should be scattered on strange strands instead of being carried as they might have been, to sunny France where at least they should have been able to speak the language of those around them. War has many terrible tragedies to answer for, but this one stands by itself in history.

By kingly rule, an exile's lot they bore,

The poet's song reclaims their scattered fold;
Blown in melodious notes to every shore,

The story of their mournful tale is told.
And to their annals linked while time shall last,
Two lovers from a shadowy realm are seen,

A fair, immortal picture of the past,

The forms of Gabriel and Evangeline.

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INDEX.

Abenaki Indians, the, 169.

Acadie, settlement of, 209.

Champlain, Lake, named, 109.
Charles I., and America, 149.

Acadians refuse to swear allegiance to Charles II. inquires into Massachu

Britain, 211; removal of, 218.
Adam and Eve, tears of, 14.
Alaric, burial of, 47.

Algebraic notation, invention of, 64.
America, discovery of, 29; struggle
for possession of, 209.
Andros, Sir Edmund, arrives in Bos-
ton, 155; goes to Connecticut, 156;
imprisoned, 160; tries to escape
from Boston, 160.
Annapolis basin, 94.
Antilla, island of, 21.
Arkansas visited by De Soto, 45.
Armada, the Spanish, 68.
Atlantis, country of, 16.
Austrian Succession, War of the, 195.
Baggage, inconvenience of losing, 44.
Bahamas, discovery of, 23.
Bancroft on the Acadians, 214.
Beacon Hill, Blaxton on, 115.
Bimini, Island of, 21.

Blaxton, William, 112; leaves Shaw-
mut, 123; claim to Shawmut, 123.
Bon-Temps, l'Ordre de, 96.
Boston celebrates the taking of Louis-
burg, 206.

Bovadilla, Isabella, wife of De Soto,
34; death of, 50.
Brandan, Island of St., 17.
Brunswick burned, 186.
Bude and Bos, shores of, 9.
Busento, burial of Alaric in, 48.
Cabot's discoveries the foundation to
England's claim to America, 155.
Canada, system of government for,

131.

Canary Islands, the, 19.

Canso captured by the French, 196.
Cape Cod visited by Cartier, 104.
Cathay, province of, 15.

Cartier, Jacques, in America, 103.
Cavalier, Robert, Sieur de la Šalle,
163, 165, etc.

Cham, court of the Grand, 14.
Champlain, Samuel de, Father
New France, 93-111.

setts affairs, 153.

Charles V., honors De Soto, 38.
Charter Oak, the, 157.
Chicago, La Salle at, 168.
Chickahominy River, 36.
China, search for a passage to, 36.
Church, a, formed in Virginia, 84.
Cipango, Ísland of, 15, 16, 26.
Colbert's plan for New France, 132.
Columbus, Christopher, 27.
Condé, prince of, interested in Amer.
ica, 61.

Coligni interested in America, 61.
Cornwallis, governor of Acadia, 213.
Croatan, 71.

Cromwell, Oliver, 148.

Crusade, a new, 40, 41; effects of, 17.
Cuba visited by De Soto, 42.
Dablon at Sault St. Mary, 136.
Dare, Virginia, birth of, 67; death of,

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Fountain of Youth, 22.

of France and England, war between,
195; attempts to hold America, 61.

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Indian warfare, 180

Indians at Jamestown, 84; character
of the, as given in early times, 64;
in Central New York, 107.
Intoxication in England, 79.
Islands, the mysterious, of the Atlan-
tic, 12.

James I., cruelty of, 75.
James II., and Massachusetts, 154;
steals away from England, 158.
Japan, island of, 16.
Jamestown settled, 82.
Jesuits, the, in America, 18, 182; in
the Northwest, 129.

Joliet, Louis, at Sault St. Mary, 135.
Jonson, Ben, on tobacco, 59.
King George's War, 195.
King Philip's War, 183.
Kittery, scene at, 190.
Lachine, rapids of, 36.

Lake Superior visited by Jesuits, 130.
Lane, Ralph, goes to America, 64.
La Salle (see Cavalier).

Lavaca, settlement at, 173.

Laud, Archbishop, 148.

land, 149, 153.

Longfellow's Evangeline, 208.
Louis XIV. claims the Northwest,
130; eulogized, 143.
Louisburg, attack upon, considered,
192; capitulates, 204; fortress at,
195, 198; effect of the experiences
at, 207.

Louisiana taken possession of by
France, 171.

Lovell's War, 186.

Lowell, James Russell, lines on Ra-
leigh, 60; on Columbus, 28.
Macaulay of King James, 76.
Macham, Robert, 8.
Madeira, discovery of, 13.

Maine formerly a part of Massachu-
setts, 190.
Malo, St., 18.

Mandeville's travels, 14.
Marco Polo, travels of, 15.

Martyr, Peter, on the Fountain of
Youth, 2
23.

Mary, Mission of St., oldest settle-
ment in Michigan, 131.
Massachusetts, charter of, 148, 153;
charter taken away, 155.
Massachusetts Historical

Society
keeps Rale's strong box, 184; peo-
ple, firmness of, 154.

Matagorda Bay, a strange sight at,
161, 173.

Mermaid Inn, company at the, 62.
Merrymount, the Maypole at, 116.
Michigan, oldest settlement in, 131;
territory of, 128.

Mississippi, the, called the fatal river,
162; burial of De Soto in, 47;
Jesuits hear of the, 131; Valley,
the, taken possession of by France,

171.

Mogg Megone, 188.

Montreal, rapids near, 36.
Moors, 26.

Moors and Christians in Spain, 20
Moody, Parson, brief grace offered
by, 205.

Moulton goes against Rale, 187.
Mount Desert, origin of name of, 103.
New France, 128; the Father of, 93,
96, 101, III.
Nipissing, lake, 128.

Norridgewock, Rale at, 176, 180, 189.
North Carolina discovered, 63.
Nova Scotia, settlement of, 209.
Old French and Indian War, 213.
Parkman, Francis, his "Pioneers of
France," 93; on the Abenakis,
169; on La Salle, 166; on Champ-
lain, III.

Liturgy, troubles about the, in Eng- Pepperell, Sir William, confers with

Whitefield and Gilman, 191.

Perrot, Nicholas, explores the North- | Shirley, Governor, invites Peppereil

west, 133, 134.

Peru, capture of the Inca of, 30, 37.
Peter the Hermit, 40.

Philip II., prepares to invade Eng-
land, 67.

Pictured rocks, the, 130.

to go to Louisburg, 193; entertains
a plan to take Louisburg, 197.
Sigourney, Mrs., quoted, 180.
Smith, Captain John, 83; seeks a pas-
sage to China, 36.

Smoke, weighing of, by Raleigh, 59.

Pilgrims, the, at Plymouth, 120, 146. Solon hears of Atlantis, 10.

Pizarro, Francisco, 30.

Plato describes Atlantis, 10.
Plymouth, settlers at, 116.
Pocahontas, meaning of the name,
86; marriage of, 87.
Polo, Marco, travels of, 15, 25.
Ponce, Juan de Leon, 22.
Popham, Sir John, 75.

Port Royal, 94; abandoned, 98.
Powhatan, 85.

Priests advise the Acadians, 209.
Prudhomme, follower of La Salie, 170.
Puritans project a colony, 119.
Quebec contributes to build Rale's
chapel, 179; founded, 105; relieves
Rale, 185.

Rale, Sebastian, begins a dictionary,
176.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 51, 57, 62.
Rebecca, Pocahontas called the Lady,
87.

Religion, motives of, 41; a war of,

182.

Reynal, Abbé, writes about the Aca-
dians, 214.

Rhode Island, Blaxton goes to, 124.
Roanoke Island, 65, 70.
Rolfe, John, falls in love with Poca-
hontas and marries her, 87.
Rome, ravaged by Alaric, 48; church

of, 41.

St. Lusson, Daumont de, 133.
Salle, Robert de la (see Cavalier).
Sault St. Mary, gathering of Indians
at, 135.

Secret, an old opened, 194; plan di-
vulged, 199.

Seven Cities, Island of the, 20, 26.
Shakespeare and his companions,

62.

Shawmut, the hermit of, 112.

Soto, Ferdinand de, 33; burial of, 46.
Spain holds the West Indies, 102.
Spenser's Faerie Queen, 57.
Standish, Miles, visits Merrymount,

116.

Superior, Lake, plans for exploration
of, 133.

Tallahassee, site of, 43.

Talon, Jean, Intendant of Canada, 132.
Texas, La Salle in, 161, 175:
Tobacco, called the Virginia Weed,
58; King James's "Counterblaste
against, 60.

Utrecht, treaty of, 211.

Vaca, Cabeza de, travels of, 39.
Vaughan, William, reconnoitres at
Louisburg, 203; suggests the attack
on Louisburg, 197.

Vexilla Regis, the Latin hymn, 136.
Virginia, name of, 64; charter of, 80;
emigration to, 82.

Waldron, treachery and death of, 183.
Warfare among the Indians, 180.
Wars with the Indians, 179.
West Indies, the, held by Spain, 102.
Westward lookers, 13, 25.

White, John, sails for America, 66.
Whitefield, George, at Pepperell's

190; gives Pepperell a motto, 201.
Whittier quoted, 177, 188.

William, Prince of Orange, 159.
Winslow, John, to remove the Aca-
dians, 216.

Winthrop, John, proposes to go to
America, 119.

Winthrop, family of, 120.
Wollaston, Mount, 116

Women kidnapped to send to Virginia,
89; sent to Virginia as wives, go.
Youth, Fountain of, 22.
Yucatan, incursions in, 35.

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