PREFACE. IN this story, the author has endeavored to draw attention to the dramatic history of early days on Mount Desert, and to connect them with the joyous doings of modern times. For a portion of the material used in the prologue, he is indebted to Mr. Parkman, whose learned and graceful pen is still, as heretofore, engaged in Tingeing the sober twilight of the present, also to Mr. S. A. Drake's charming book, Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast, which should be the vade mecum of all sojourners in those regions. Nor can any one who attempts to write on the fascinating subject of the mystical city of Norumbega, fail to incur obligations to Mr. J. G. Whittier. WASHINGTON, D. C., 1886. 316613 |