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Updated: June 13, 2025
The reference made by John Gyles in his narrative to the arrival of the ships from France is of interest. "There came annually," he says, "one or two men of war to supply the fort which was on the river about 34 leagues from the sea. At this time they presented the Indians with a bag or two of flour with some prunes as ingredients for a feast.
The latter portion of the narrative of John Gyles throws light on the course of events on the St. John during Villebon's regime, and supplies us with a particularly interesting glimpse of domestic life in the home of Louis d'Amours on the banks of the Jemseg, where Gyles spent the happiest years of his captivity.
The procession passed and re-passed from end to end of the field with solemn words of exorcism accompanied by the tinkling of a little bell, the blackbirds constantly rising before them only to light behind them. "At their return," says Gyles, "I told a French lad that the friar had done no service and recommended them to shoot the birds.
It could scarcely have been smallpox, according to the description of John Gyles, who says: "A person seeming in perfect health would bleed at the mouth and nose, turn blue in spots and die in two or three hours." The first outbreak of the pestilence was in the autumn of 1694. A year later Mon. The pestilence, however, did not put a stop to the Indian warfare.
Among their prisoners was a lad named Gyles whose experience during the nine years he lived in captivity on the St. John river is told in his very interesting narrative published in Boston in 1736.
His sandy hair was thin and straggling, and his fine cloth hose wrinkled around his shrunken shanks; but his eye was sharp, and he wore about his neck a broad gold chain that marked him as no common man. For Master Nathaniel Gyles was head of the Cathedral schools of acting and of music, and he stood upon his dignity.
Evidently the Indians had retained the practices of their forefathers as regards their treatment of captives, for Pote's experience at Aukpaque was just about on a par with that of Gyles at Medoctec rather more than half a century before. These practices being in harmony with the ideas and customs inherited from their ancestors did not readily disappear even under the influence of Christianity.
Sir Gyles Goose-Cappe Knight, a comedy lately acted with great applause at the private House in Salisbury Court. London: printed for Hugh Perry, and are to be sold by Roger Ball, at the Golden Anchor in the Strand, neere Temple Barre, 1636. I have given the title-pages in full, omitting a Latin motto which adorns the title-page of the M.A. of Exeter College. Periwinkle a Mocking Emblem.
Thou art to sing before the school to-morrow, so that Master Nathaniel Gyles may take thy range and worth. Now, truly, thou wilt do thy very best?" The bandy-legged man had brought water in a ewer, and poured some in a basin for Nick to wash his hands. There was a green ribbon in his ear, and the towel hung across his arm. Nick wiped his hands in silence.
A queer old man, Nat Gyles, and dead this many a long, long year; yet that night no man was happier than he. But Master Gaston Carew, who had come for Nick, stood in the gathering dusk by the gate below, and stared up at the yellow square of light with a troubled look upon his reckless face. It was a frosty morning when they all marched down to the boats that bumped along Paul's wharf.
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