Identifier: americapicturesq03cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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iat war, again seizing it in theWar of 1812. This noted old fort was captured andscarred in wars resulting in no less than five differentnational occupations. The present name is derivedfrom Baron Castine, who came with his French regi-ment to Acadia, and gave Pentagoet its great ro-mance. He was Vincent, Baron de St. Castine, lordof Oleron in the French Pyrenees, who arrived in16G7, and inspired by a chivalrous desire to extendthe Catholic religion among the Indians, went intothe wilderness to live among the fierce Tarratines.As Longfellow tells it in the Students Tale at TlieWayside Inn : Baron Castine of St. CastineHas left his chateau in the PyreneesAnd sailed across the Western seas. Pentagoet then was a populous town ruled by theSachem Madockawando, and the young Baron, tarry-ing there, soon found friends among the Indians.The sachem had a susceptible daughter, and thisdusky belle, captivated by the courtly graces of thehandsome Baron, fell in love : Castine, from tbe ®ID fort.
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PENTACiOET AND CASTINE. 2G3 Ior mail is firo, and woman is t<i\v,Ami tliL Somobixiy comes ami bii^ins to blow. The usual results fi)llu\ved, so tliat it was not long-before— Ix) ! the young Baron of St. Castine,Swift as tlie wind is, and as wild,Has married a dusky Tarratine, Has married Madocawandos child ! This niarringo raacle him one of the tribe, and hesoon became their leader. The restless and warlikeIndians almost worshipped the chivalrous youngFrenchman ; he was their apostle, and led them inrepeated raids against their English and Indian foes.But ultimately tiring of this roving life in the for-ests, he returned tn his chateau in tlie Pyrenees/taking liis Indian bride along. They were welcomedwith surprise and admiration: Down in the village day by dayThe people gossip in their way,And stare to see the Baroness passOn Sunday morning to early mass ;And when she kneeleth down to pray,They wonder, and whisper together, and say,Surely this is no heathen lass !And in course o

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