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Lake, after shooting her husband and another Indian. She was brought 

 to St. John's and called Mary March, after the month in which she was 

 taken, treated with great kindness, and in the hope of conciliating her 

 tribe and opening communication with them, she was loaded with 

 presents and sent back to her people. She died on the voyage, having 

 been a sufferer from consumption ; the party in charge of her placed her 

 body in a cofifin, wrapping muslin around it and left it on the margin of 

 a lake so as to be found by her people, who conveyed it to Red Indian 

 Lake, where it was found by Cormack. The manners of Mary March 

 when in St. John's were very pleasing. There was a quiet dignity about 

 her which induced the belief that she was a chief's wife. She had been 

 dead for several years when found by Cormack. 



Four years after the capture of Mary March, three other red Indian 

 women were captured near Twillingate and brought to St. John's. These 

 were the last of the tribe seen alive. They were a mother and two 

 daughters. The mother and one daughter died in a short time, the other 

 lived for six years, learned English and became a useful servant, but 

 died of consumption, a disease, as she said, fatal to many of her tribe. 

 Her name was Shanandithet. She had a wonderful talent for drawing. 

 Soon after her arrival in St. John's a piece of paper and a lead pencil 

 were given to her, and in a few strokes she drew a deer perfectly, and 

 what was more remarkable began at the tip of the tail. 



In the museum are several hand sketches, showing the route of 

 Buchan's expedition in i8io, the massacre of the marines, and the flight 

 of the Indians, which were drawn by Shanandithet who was with the tribe 

 at the time. The sketches are remarkable for their accuracy in giving 

 the numbers of Indians and whites. They show where the marines were 

 killed and the route of the fugitive Indians. The papers are very inter- 

 esting. It is the earnest hope of the writer that Mr, Howley may soon 

 be able to give a detailed history of these expeditions as gathered from 

 the various monographs under his charge. 



Cormack, the traveller who crossed the island in 1822, made a final 

 effort in 1828 to discover the remnant of the red Indians, which were 

 supposed to be in existence, in order to open up friendly communications 

 with them. He and his party penetrated to Red Indian Lake, the head- 

 quarters of the Boeothicks, but could not find a single person. They 

 found numerous relics of the race, such as clusters of wigwams, store- 

 houses for venison, canoes, etc. In one of the burial huts they found 

 two bodies wrapped in deer skins on the floor, one was the body of Mary 

 March, which was in a white deal coffin, neatly shrouded in white muslin. 

 Reside the bodies were two small wooden images, representing husband 



