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received the name of John August from the month in which he was taken. Till his 

 death he lired among the whites. Mr. Bland, in the letter already quoted, says: "He 

 was taken when an infant. He fell from his mother's back, who was running off with 

 her child when she was shot, and I have been told by those who were intimate with him 

 that he has frequendy expressed a wish to meet the murderer of his mother, that he might 

 avenge her death.'" Mr. Tocque mentions that in 18-12 he met an old maa who had seen 

 both him and June, when he was a boy at Catalina, and said that August went master of 

 a fishing boat out of that place for several years. All that we know farther of him is 

 contained in the following entry in the parish register of Trinity : 



" 1788 October 29 



"Interred John August, a native Indian of thiH island, a servant to Jeffrey (_t. Street." 



Mr. Cartwright brought under the notice of the governor, Sir Hugh Palliser, the 

 cruelties practised by the whites in the northeast part of the island upon this unfor- 

 tunate people, but for a time no active measures were adopted to suppress them. And 

 what cared the lawless trappers and fishermen of that region for proclamations, which 

 were followed tip by no practical measures. The relation between the two therefore con- 

 tinued as before till the arrival of Admiral Lord Gambler as governor in 1802. He inter- 

 ested himself in the matter, and among his first acts was the issuing of a proclamation 

 offering a reward for the capture of a Red Indian. As a result a woman was brought to 

 St. John's by a fisherman, of which we have the following record under date 17th Septem- 

 ber, 1803: ""William Cull having brought an Indian woman from Gander Bay to this 

 harbour, I have for his trouble, loss of time, etc., paid him the sum of fifty pounds. The 

 said William Cull has also promised to convey the woman back to the spot from whence 

 she was brought, and to use his endeavours to return her to her friends among the Indians, 

 together with the few articles of clothing which have been given her." She is said to 

 have been taken by Cull as she was paddling in a canoe towards a small island for birds' 

 eggs. She was treated kindly in St John's, and her appearance and conduct while there 

 are thus described: "She appeared to be about fifty years of age, very docile, and evi- 

 dently different from all the tribes of Indians or savages of which we have any know- 

 ledge. She was of a copper color, with black eyes and hair like the hair of a European. 

 She showed a passionate fondness for children. Being introduced into a large assembly 

 by Governor Gambler, never were astonishment and pleasure more strongly depicted in a 

 human countenance than hers exhibited. After having walked through the room between 

 the governor and the general, whose gold ornaments and feathers seemed to attract her 

 attention in a particular manner, she squatted on the floor, holding fast a bundle in which 

 were her fur clothes, which she would not suffer to be taken away from her. She was 

 then placed in a situation from which she had a full view of the whole room, and on the 

 instant lost her serious or melancholy deportment. She looked at the musicians as if she 

 wished to be near them. A gentleman took her by the hand, pointing to them at the 

 same time. She perfectly understood his meaning, went through the crowd, sat with 

 them for a short time, and then expressed in her way a wish to retire. She was every- 

 where treated with the greatest kindness, and appeared to be sensible of it. Being 

 allowed to take in the shops whatever took her fancy, she showed a decided preference 



