Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 48227-h.htm or 48227-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48227/48227-h/48227-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48227/48227-h.zip) THE LAND OF EVANGELINE The authentic story of her country and her people by JOHN F. HERBIN Illustrated in color and black and white. With Evangeline by H. W. Longfellow Toronto The Musson Book Company Limited Copyright, Canada, 1921 The Musson Book Company. Ltd. Publishers Toronto Third Edition 10th Thousand Musson All Canadian Production [Illustration: Evangeline's Well Evangeline's Land is romantic and beautiful at any time, but in apple-blossom time it is adorable; a riot of blossom everywhere, of purest white, cream and shell pink, and, in the midst of it all in a little hollow or dip in the road one comes upon the tiny village of Grand Pré--straggling down a gentle slope to the basin of Minas. In the Spring the village is almost buried in blossom, and so peaceful now, tho' the scene of so much sorrow and tragedy in the past, of which one is reminded by Evangeline's Well, and an old stone cross, which marks the site where the village once stood. A picturesque row of ancient willows, planted by the Acadians, helps to bring back the pathos and tragedy of that time even now.] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Evangeline's Well _Frontispiece_ Map of The Evangeline Country viii Facing Page At Annapolis Royal 8 (Old Port Royal) Bear River 16 The Blue Boat 24 Blomidon, Low Tide 40 Gaspereau River and Blomidon 40 (Scene of the Deportation) The Stone Cross 41 (Acadian Burying Ground) Evangeline 56 (From the Painting) Scotch Covenanter Church 57 (Grand-Pré) Village Smithy 57 (Grand-Pré) The Evangeline Statue 72 Original Acadian Willow-Trees 72 [Illustration: TOURIST'S GUIDE To The EVANGELINE COUNTRY] The Land _of_ Evangeline "Sat by some nameless grave, and thought that perhaps in its bosom He was already at rest; and she longed to slumber beside him." Grand-Pré, the home of Evangeline, seldom fails to impress the stranger, who sees it for the first time, with a sense of its rich loveliness. It would be difficult to find a more delightful setting for the story of the Acadian maiden, separated from her betrothed lover, Gabriel, and sent into exile with her people.