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NortH AMERICAN INDIANS—August 19th, 1850. A 
- coloured man, native of the Bermudas, named “ Nat Kiel,” 
resident on the verge of the rolling “Sand Hills” of Paget 
Parish, called on me afew days ago, and stated that he 
captured the Scarlet Tanager which Mr. Marriott sent to 
me on the 19th of April last. That he first observed it 
among the peach trees which grow in front of his small 
wooden house, and caught it in a trap of horse hair nooses 
set for cat-birds on the rim of a tub of water; that 
after keeping the bird in confinement for three days, it 
died. He saw no other Scarlet Tanagers at the time, nor 
did he ever previously observe the bird in these islands. 
This man, Nat Kiel, has so thoroughly the features, lank 
hair, and full black eye of the Mic Mac Indians of North 
America, and is, moreover, so perfectly distinct from the 
different races of African and Asiatic blood prevalent in the 
Bermudas, that I think there can be little doubt of his 
Indian origin. 
Robertson says, in his History of America, that many 
Indians of the Mic Mac tribe were captured by the settlers 
of James’s River, in the early settlement of that portion of 
the coast. These were sold and exported as slaves, many 
being sent to the Bermudas. 
Mr. W. B. Smith, the Receiver-General of the islands, 
tells me that in his boyhood he has often heard his father 
speak of certain families being descendants of North 
American Indians, and that “ Nat Kiel,’—now about sixty 
years of age—has always been considered a person of 
this description—J. L. H. 
