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for bright colors, accepted what was given, but she would not for a moment leave hold 

 of her bundle, keenly resenting any attempt to take it from her." ' 



Cull, as appears from the above record, was to return her to her friends. As a con- 

 ciliatory present to them, there was entrusted to him a quantity of goods to the value of 

 seventy-five dollars, consisting of fishing Hues, handsaws, hatchets, nails, clasp-knives, 

 blaukets, women's shoes, etc. There is reason to believe that the entrusting a Beothik 

 with such au amount of goods to the care of one of the north Newfoundland fishermen, 

 one, too, reported to have shot several of the tribe, was simply eutrusting the sheep to the 

 care of the wolf. At all events the arrangements for her return to her people were not 

 immediately carried out, and she remained with her captor all winter. All that is 

 recorded of her afterward is contained in the following letter, dated Fogo, September 2*7, 

 1804:— 



'■Sir, — This is to infonn _yi)a that I coulii i;-et no men niilil the 28ih day of August, when wo 



proceeded v>ith the Indian to the Bay of E.Kploils, and thet\ went with her np the river as far as we 



possibly' could, for want of more strength, and there let her remain ten da}^-*, and when I returned 



the i-est of the Indians had cni'ried her otf in the country-. I would not wish to have any nioi-e hand 



with the Indians unless you will send round and insure payment for a numher of men to go in the 



country in winter. The people do not iiold with civilizing the Indians, as the}' think thiit the}- will 



kill more than they did before. 



Wm. Cull. 



The tone of this letter is rather suspicious, and many believed that instead of return- 

 ing her to her friends he had murdered her for the sake of the goods sent with her. 



In the year 1807 Admiral HoUoway arrived as governor. Before leaving England 

 he had formed a plan for holding intercourse with the natives, which he propounded to 

 Lord Castlereagh in the following terms : — 



" To have paintings representing the Indians and Europeans in a group, each in the 

 usual dress of their country. The Indians bringing furs, etc., to trafiic with the Europeans, 

 who should be offering blaukets, hatchets, etc., in exchange. The pictures to be taken 

 by an officer commanding one of the schooners, to the place usually resorted to by the 

 Indians, and left with a small quantity of European goods and trinkets, and when taken 

 away by the Indians to be replaced by another supply." 



The idea was not a bad one. It was exactly what was done, we believe successfully, 

 with the natives of Australia. The plan was approved by the colonial minister; a pic- 

 ture was prepared and sent out with the admiral. In the following year (1808) it was 

 entrusted, with a quantity of other articles, to Lieut. Spratt, who proceeded in an armed 

 schooner to the Bay of Exploits. The picture is described as representing officers of the 

 Royal Navy shaking hands with an Indian chief, a party of sailors laying parcels of goods 

 at his feet, Indians, men and women, presenting furs to the officers, a European and 

 Indian mother looking at their respective children of the same age, and a sailor courting 

 an Indian girl. The expedition was entirely unsuccessful, and Lieut. Spratt, after 

 searching for some time, Wiis compelled bj^ the advancing season to return to St. John's 

 without having seen a single Red Indian, and bringiiig back the picture and the other 

 goods. 



Anspach's " History of Newfoundland," p. 245. 



