Defending the Island.

DEFENDING THE ISLAND

A STORY OF BAR HARBOR IN 1758

BY

JAMES OTIS

Boston
DANA ESTES & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1904

BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY

All rights reserved

CONTENTS
I. THE ISLAND
II. THE FIRST ASSAULT
III. A DAY OF SUSPENSE
IV. AN ATTACK
V. FIRE
VI. THE WRECK

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Friend or enemy? (See Chapter III.) Frontispiece
"'Indians skulking on the harbor island!'"
"The stout-hearted girl set about the task"
"Susan stood guard at the gateway"
"The children had improvised platforms"
"Mark saw a canoe put off from the Harbor Island"
"'You shall not have the smallest chicken inside this stockade!'"
"'Look! Look! A vessel!'"
"He returned with a heavy log"
"'Do you refuse to surrender?'"
"An instant later the entire party was in retreat"
"Susan's arm was being rebandaged"
"He reëntered the house with a bucket two-thirds full of muddy water"
"Again the crash of thunder drowned all sounds"
"The next knowledge was that the women were trying to nurse him back to life"
"He gazed at the struggling wretches on the bottom of the wreck"

In the year of grace 1758 there were two families living on thatisland which we of to-day call Mount Desert; but Champlain namedMons Deserts, because its thirteen high, rugged mountains could beseen from the seaward a distance of twenty leagues, making it thefirst landmark of the coast for seamen.

It is said, by those gentlemen who write down historical facts forus young people to study, that the "savages were much attached tothe island; for in the mountains they hunted bears, wildcats,raccoons, foxes, and fowls; in the marshes and natural meadows,beaver, otter and musquash; and in the waters they

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