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A SKETCH OF THE ACADIEN OCCUPATION OF THE
SHORES OF THE BASIN OF MINAS

THE HOME OF LONGFELLOW'S "EVANGELINE"

A Guide for Tourists

BY

THE ONLY DESCENDANT OF THE EXILED PEOPLE NOW LIVING
IN THE LAND OF HIS FOREFATHERS

ENTERED according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, at the Department of Agriculture.

Dedicated to

The Acadien People.

THE RETURNED ACADIEN.

Along my fathers' dykes I roam again,

Among the willows by the river-side.

These miles of green I know from hill to tide,
And every creek and river's ruddy stain.

Neglected long and shunned our dead have lain,
Here where a people's dearest hope had died.
Alone of all their children scattered wide,

I scan the sad memorials that remain.

The dykes wave with the grass, but not for me;
The oxen stir not while this stranger calls.

From these new homes upon the green hill-side,
Where speech is strange and a new people free,
No voice cries out in welcome; for these halls
Give food and shelter where I may not bide.
-J. F. Herbin.