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N"OETH American Indians. — ^August 19tli, 1850. A 

 coloured man, native of the Bermudas, named " ISTat Kiel," 

 resident on the verge of the roUing " Sand Hills " of Paget 

 Parish, called on me a few days ago, and stated that he 

 captured the Scarlet Tanager which Mr. Marriott sent to 

 me on the 19th of April last. That he first 'observed it 

 among the peach trees which grow in front of his small 

 wooden house, and caught it in a trap of horse hair nooses 

 set for cat-birds on the rim of a tub of water; that 

 after keeping the bird in confinement for three days, it 

 died. He saw no other Scarlet Tanagers at the time, nor 

 did he ever previously observe the bird in these islands. 



This man, Nat Kiel, has so thoroughly the features, lank 

 hair, and full black eye of the Mic Mac Indians of North 

 America, and is, moreover, so perfectly disttuct from the 

 different races of African and Asiatic blood prevalent in the 

 Bermudas, that I think there can be little doubt of his 

 Indian origin. 



Eobertson says, in his History of America, that many 

 Indians of the Mic Mac tribe were captured by the settlers 

 of James's Eiver, ia the early settlement of that portion of 

 .the coast. These were sold and exported as slaves, many 

 being sent to the Bermudas. 



Mr. W. B. Smith, the Eeceiver-General of the islands, 

 teUs me that in his boyhood he has often heard his father 

 speak of certain families beiag descendants of North 

 American Indians, and that " Nat Kiel," — now about siKty 

 years of age — has always been considered a person of 

 this description. — J. L. H. ' 



