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war of equal force was within half a mile bearing down upon 

 them. The Niger, which lay at some distance from them, 

 was hailed, and told the Indians were coming, when the 

 enemy appeared, in the shape of a flock of loons, swimming 

 and flying about the harbor, which from the darkness of the 

 night they had not before seen. All hands were then sent 

 down to sleep again, with no more thought of the Indians 

 till the Niger's people came on board next day, who will 

 probably never forget that their companions cleared ship and 

 turned up all hands for a flock of loons. 



LIEUTENANT CARTWRIGHT. 



The first person of European origin who succeeded in 

 making friends with the Esquimaux was Lieut. Cartwright, 

 an Englishman who established a 

 fishing stand below Cape Charles, 

 shortly after the peace of 1763, and 

 gave up a great part of his time to 

 taming ,and instructing the natives. 

 He was a scion of a well known Eng- 

 lish family, and had served in the 

 East Indies as a cadet in the 39th 

 Regiment, and in the German War 

 as aide-de-camp to the Marquis of 

 Granby. In 1766 he accompanied 

 his brother, John Cartwright, who 

 Lieut. Cartwright. was lieutenant on H.M.S. "Guern- 



sey," to the Newfoundland Station, 



spending the summer in cruising about the coast of Labrador 

 and indulging in shooting, for which he had quite a passion. 

 A few years later he commenced a trapping and fishing busi- 

 ness, engaging fishermen to take both seals and cod. In 

 1792 he published his journal of "Transactions an,d Events 

 during a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Labrador, ' ' 

 which is in three large quarto volumes full of interesting 

 information. He succeeded in making friends with the 

 Esquimaux, and on two of his visits to England carried 



