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Island of Fogo. The island being small and low, 

 they cannot see it from either of those places, nor 

 is it possible to conceive, how they could get in- 

 formation from any other nation. The Indians 

 repair thither once or twice every year, and return 

 with their canoes laden Avith birds and eggs; for 

 the number of sea-fowl w^hich resort to this island 

 to breed, are far beyond credibility. 



That our people might easily have established 

 a friendly intercourse, and beneficial traffic with 

 these Indians, the circumstance which I have al- 

 ready related renders highly probable: but Adle 

 murder first produced a spirit of revenge in them, 

 and that has been made a pretence for unheard 

 of cruelties, on the parts of our fishermen. I could 

 relate several recent instances, some of which I 

 had from the accounts of the perpetrators them- 

 selves; but they are so diabolically shocking, that 

 I will spare the reader the pain of perusing, and 

 myself that of writing, an account of acts, which 

 w^ould disgrace the greatest savages. 



What number of these Indians may still be left, 

 no person can even hazard a conjecture; but it 

 must decrease annually: for our people murder all 

 they can, and also destroy their stock of provision, 

 canoes, and implements of all sorts, whenever a 

 surprise forces them, by a precipitate retreat, to 

 leave those things behind them. This loss has 

 frequently occasioned whole families to die by 

 famine. The Mickmack Indians,^ who come from 



1 These belong to the distinct Algonkin family, the same family to 

 which the Nascaupee and Montagnais Indians of Labrador belong. 



