This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...early in the seventeenth century. The most stirring episode in the early history of the spot is that of the feud between Charles La Tour, who had a fort at the head of St. John Harbor, and his rival D"Aulnay Charnisay, who had his headquarters across the bay at Port Roi/al. Trading with the Indians, and fishing and hunting, Charles La Tour prospered in his fort in the St. John"s mouth. The story of the disasters that at length overtook him has been thus told by the present writer in another work: "But La Tour"s chief good fortune lay in the possession of a woman, who appears to have been in all ways the fit wife for a man of his stamp. Her ability, no less than his own, contributed to his prosperity, and losing her he lost also, for the time, all his life-long efforts had availed...