27S 



INDIANS OF NOVA SCOTIA — GILPIN. 



Pictou, 



Oakum, 



Porpus, 



Labrador, 



Pulpis, 



Brinaugh, 



Mabou, 



Petition, 



Leguire, 



Kalecl, 



Bonta, 



Savio, 



Lapier, 



Paspish, 



Bardo, 



Genesb, 



Muscataway, 



Snasin, 



Penaul, 



Amquasset, 



Snake, 



Letone, 



Algomartin, 



Mercatowan, 



Morier, 



Agamone, 



Pearless, 



Prospea, 



Beatle, 



Polalance, 



Brospea, 



Bobbii, 



Sesough, 



Brashea, 



Marble, 



Hogamaw, 



Sheponie, 



Quarrel, 



Dinney, 



Lurlau, 



Docomorno, 



Gogos. 



Legou, 







In this list we find several that may be called territorial, as 

 Mabou, Pictou, Labrador, Genish to be represented by one, Jackish, 

 who surrendered to Governor Mascarene, (ob circa 1740) ; some 

 with a French origin and many evidently, as Algomartink, Musca- 

 tawry, and others of remote Indian origin. These last all appear, 

 some of them many times in old manuscripts, but are now, with a 

 few exceptions, extinct. 



The spelling has been made by the various writers of these old 

 papers, seemingly each one by his own idea of sound, and thus 

 families may have been confounded. In saying that at present 

 there may be about forty to fifty-five families in the Province is an 

 approximation. 



To show the uncertainty of any deductions from these words of 

 an unwritten dialect, we have a tradition of a great chief named 

 Hogomaw, who fought against Wolf at Louisbourg and Quebec, and 

 was there saved from being shot by ^having spared an officer at 

 Louisbourg, and his grave is still shown in Cape Breton. Now 

 Malti Pictou, an Indian of Digby County, upon hearing the word 

 Hogomaw, said directly, "that means where big tree lies fallen." 

 Thus memory and tradition having died out, even among his 



