16 CAPTAIN CARTWRIGHT'S 



had with Mycock, the woman whom he took to 

 England about a year and a half ago, and from 

 whom he had learned their language. 



Finding that it would still be some time before 

 the Enterprize was fit for sea, I borrowed a small 

 sloop of Mr. Coghlan, took Captain French, Mrs. 

 Selby, Charles and Edward, together with all the 

 dogs, and sailed this morning on a cruise up the 

 Bay of Exploits, in hopes of meeting with some 

 of the Wild Indians,^ as numbers of them fre- 

 quent that bay at this time of the year. 



Wednes., July 11, 1770. We got under weigh 

 soon after daylight, and as we towed towards 

 Comfit Island I discovered, by the help of a pocket 

 Dolland,^ a party of the Wild Indians upon a very 

 small island which lies contiguous to the East end 

 of Little Cold Hall. They had two whigwhams, 

 about a hundred yards from the shore, with a fire 

 in each, and two canoes hdng on the beach; one 

 of which they seemed to be mending. I counted 

 six people, and one of them appeared to be re- 

 markably tall, but I could not distinguish of which 

 sex they were; they did not seem to be alarmed 

 at us, because their ignorance of the powers of 

 the telescope, made them not suspect we had dis- 

 <30vered them at that distance. 



* The long since extinct and little known race, the Beothttk. They are 

 now considered to have constituted a distinct linguistic stock of the 

 Indians. Carmack's Expedition, conducted in behalf of the Beothic Society 

 in 1827, failed to find a single individual of this once prominent tribe. 

 The cause of their extinction is only too plainly shown by Cartwright in 

 his valuable account of them. 



^ A telescope made by John Dollond or Dolland, an English optic- 

 ian, the inventor of the achromatic telescope in 1757. 



