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



St. George Bay (1783). ^ 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. * At St. George Bay the Micmacs byEnglish- 



associated with English and Jersey settlers, who were there ^^i^^ ^'^^ 



already (1783), and remained there in spite of the Declaration *i/ st. 



of Versailles, and who in 1 8 1 3 were one hundred in number, (George 



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.* 



In 1762 there were salmon-catchers and settlers at ^^^andby 

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

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

 embraced and slew them. In 1768 Lieutenant John Cart- -^^^^ ^^^^^ 

 Wright, R.N., accompanied by his brother Captain George conflict 



Cartwright, by a settler, and by some seamen, undertook the "^iththe 

 . ... 1 . , 1- J 1 . . ^ J Beothics. 



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.^ The river 



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

 p. 34, and comp. Pedley, History of Newfoundland, pp. i2t-2, 

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



2 * Little Barrisway.' 



^ Lieutenant Edward Chappell, Voyage of H.M.S. Rosamtmd to 

 Newfoundland and Labrador y 18 18, p. 76. 



^ Post, pp. 16, 164. 



^ 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, 181 8, 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. 



