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and disaffected. On the roth of August the Dutch stormed the fort. Several of its defenders were killed and M. Chambly himself severely wounded. The place was captured, the fortifications dismantled and destroyed, and houses of the French burned.

Machias and other French trading posts in Maine were visited and plundered, and then the Dutch vessel entered the "Baie Francoise" and headed for the St.. John river. What fortifications there were on the river at this time were demolished or taken possession of. The last place visited was Fort Jemseg, where M. de Joibert, Sieur de Marson and Soulanges—another Carignan officer—was in command. Fort Jemseg was not in a condition to offer resistance to such a force as now assailed it. It was compelled to surrender and was dismantled by the Dutch. Both Chambly and Marson, and perhaps other officers, were made prisoners and carried off by the Dutchmen, who, after the style of "the brethren of the coast," demanded for them a ransom of one thousand beaver skins or equivalent.

The Dutch vessel, already loaded with plunder, did not visit Port Royal, which was probably without fortification at that time, but where there were some three or four hundred people—the bulk of what European population was then on the shores of the Bay of Fundy.

In September, 1674, the Dutch privateer, with the French cannon taken at the forts, the plunder of furs, etc., and with the Seigneurs Chambly and Marson themselves on board, sailed into Boston Harbor. All were received with open arms. The guns were purchased by the Puritan authorities and placed in the "castle" for the defence of Boston. The pelts and other booty were disposed of to Boston traders, and, as for the unfortunate M. Chambly, "Governor of Aca-