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when, being a little in advance before the rest of the party, 

 the Indian was seen to start suddenly backward. He 

 screamed loudlv, and fled with a swiftness that rendered 

 pursuit in vain. The cause of his flight was understood 

 when Mr. Buchan, the next moment, beheld upon the ice, 

 headless and pierced by the arrows of the natives, the 

 naked bodies of his two marines v.ho had been left v»'ith 

 the Indians. An alarm had, it is evident, been given by 

 the savage to the party at the rendezvous ; and it is 

 supposed that, to justify his conduct in so deserting, he 

 had abused his countrymen with a tale, which excited tliem 

 to what perhaps they considered a just retaliation. 



The following is an abstract of Mr. Buchan's journal : — • 



jour:nal. 



Saturday y VUh January, 1811 : River of Exploits. — 

 On the eve of this day my arrangements were closed, and 

 every necessary preparation for the purpose of endeavouring 

 to accomplish the object of procuring an interview with 

 the native Indians of this island. For this service I em- 

 ployed William Cull and Matthew Hughster as guides, 

 attended by twenty-three men and a boy of the crew of 

 His Majesty's schooner, and Thomas Taylor, a man in 

 Mr. Miller's employ, and well acquainted with this part of 

 the country. 



The provisions, arms, and other requisite articles, to- 

 gether with presents for the Indians, were packed on twelve 

 sledges, and consisted of the following : viz. bread, eight 

 hundred and fifty pounds ; sugar, one hundred pounds ; co- 

 coa, thirty- four pounds ; pork, six hundred and sixty pounds ; 

 salt beef, thirty pounds ; spirits, sixty gallons, equal to four 

 hundred and eighty pounds ; rice, thirty pounds ; tea, six 

 pounds ; tare of casks and packages, five hundred pounds ; 

 ships' muskets, seven ; fowling-pieces, three ; pistols, six ; 

 cutlasses, six; with cartouch boxes and ammunition equaVto 

 two hundred and seventy pounds ; ten axes, and culinary 

 utensils : presents for the Indians — blankets, thirty ; wooK 



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