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D'Espoir (1765 or before 1822), * White Bear Bay, 2 and 

 St. George Bay (1783) 3 They pierced through the wooded 

 belt which fringes the sea-board, and hunted somewhere on 

 the bare mossy or rocky barrens beyond no one knew where, 

 when, or how; and rumours were bruited abroad in the 

 second quarter of the nineteenth century that Beothics as well 

 as deer were their quarry. 4 At St. George Bay the Micmacs byEnglish- 



associated with English and Jersey settlers, who were there r " en an(l 



Jerseyinen 

 already (1783), and remained there in spite of the Declaration a t st. 



of Versailles, and who in 1813 were one hundred in number, 



Bay, 

 with a chief constable, and with a versatile Irishman who 



used to dress as an Indian and to officiate at weddings and 

 funerals, as though he were the self-ordained priest of some 

 new religion. One or two English families are said to have 

 inhabited the mouth of the Humber from 1780 onwards, and 

 one English family is said to have inhabited Little Harbour 

 at the entrance to Bonne Bay from 1809 onwards. 5 



In 1762 there were salmon-catchers and settlers at ^Q and by 



mouth of the Exploits River, and some Beothics, while on salmon- 



catchers at 

 their annual pilgrimage to the seashore, met the settlers, Exploits 



embraced and slew them. In 1768 Lieutenant John Cart- Ba y* ho 



. came into 



wright, R.N., accompanied by his brother Captain George COH jn c t 



Cartwright, by a settler, and by some seamen, undertook the vnththe 

 most important upland journey which had hitherto been under- 

 taken, and ascended the Exploits River as far as Red Indian 

 Lake, which they were the first white men to see. 6 The river 



1 Sic Captain T. Cole, cited by Captain Griffith Williams, op. cit., 

 p. 34, and comp. Pedley, History of Newfoundland, pp. 121-2, 

 App. VII, p. 513. Qu. at Conne Harbour? 



2 ' Little Barrisway.' 



3 Lieutenant Edward Chappell, Voyage of H.M.S. Rosamund to 

 Newfoundland and Labrador ; 1818, p. 76. 



4 Post, pp. 16, 164. 



5 Joseph Beete Jukes, Excursions in Newfoundland, 1839-40, vol. i, 

 p. 115; Church in the Colonies, No. 25 (1849); E. Chappell, Voyage 

 of H.M.S. Rosamund to Newfoundland and Labrador, 1818, p. 195, 

 only mentions summer settlements. 



% Frances D. Cartwright, Life and Correspondence of Major Cart- 

 wright, 1826, vol. i, pp. 32-9; vol. ii, pp. 307 et seq. 



