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     plunder his stores, set fire to his buildings, and leave 
     
     only the charred ruins of a once promising settle- 
     
     ment, the object of so much solicitude on his part 
     
     and of reasonable pride on the part of the officials 
     
     at Port La Joye and at Louisburg. He then followed 
     
     the road which he himself had made to St. Peters and 
     
     finally made his way to Quebec to await the end of 
     
     the war. 
     
    

    
     The other detachment landed at Port La Joye and 
     
     carried out a similar plan of destruction, burning the 
     
     capital to the ground. The garrison of twenty men 
     
     under du Vivier retreated up the Northeast River, 
     
     hotly pursued by the Provincials, until remforced by 
     
     a number of habitans and Indians it rallied and 
     
     drove the invaders to their boats with a loss of nine 
     
     men killed, wounded, or made prisoner. The whole 
     
     expedition was in the nature of a destructive foray 
     
     and having destroyed the nearest centers of French 
     
     activity the detachments returned together to Louis- 
     
     burg, leaving the island to the disposal of their supe- 
     
     riors. Shortly after this an agreement was arrived 
     
     at whereby the inhabitants of Isle Saint Jean were 
     
     to be unmolested for the space of one year on giving 
     
     six hostages for their good behavior. Du Vivier and 
     
     his twenty men, feeling that they could be of little 
     
     use to the inhabitants after the fall of Louisburg, 
     
     escaped to Quebec, arriving there on August 7. Here 
     
     he entered eagerly into plans for the recovery of the 
     
     island by a force from Canada and, though these 
     
     plans came to nought, he managed to secure the 
     
     despatch of provisions there to tide them over the