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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
ng all the night long. The shades of our braves that have fallen in war, have gone so deep into the earth that they never can be heard calling for revenge.—I place a stone on their graves, said Pieskaret, that no one may move their bones. With greater sincerity, the Abenakis of Maine, touched by the charities of Silleri, had solicited missionaries. Conversion to Catholic Christianity would establish their warlike tribes as a wakeful barrier 1646 Aug. 29. against New England; and, in August, 1646, Father Gabriel Dreuillettes, first of Europeans, made the long Relation 1647, p. 176 to 193. and painful journey from the St. Lawrence to the sources of the Kennebec, and, descending that stream to its mouth, in a bark canoe continued his roamings on the open sea along the coast. The cross was already planted there,—raised by the disciples of St. Francis of Assisi over their humble lodge near the Chap. XX.} mouth of the Penobscot. After a short welcome, the earnest apostle returned