SCOTT 'S ADVENTURE. 255 with them, and mixed among them. An old man, who ; pretended friendship, put his arms round Scott's "> neck, when another immediately stabbed him in the back. The horrible yell or war-whoop immediately resounded ; a shower of arrows fell upon the English, which killed five of them, and the rest fled to their vessel, carrying off* one of those who had been killed, with several arrows sticking in his body. From this period, until the beginning of the pre¬ sent century, there appears to have been no farther intercourse with the Boeothics; but that they con¬ tinued to be hunted and shot like foxes, by the north¬ ern furriers and fishermen, is well known,—the only reason for such unjustifiable barbarity being, that the Boeothics came from their lurking places, and robbed the fishing-nets. We need not, therefore, be surprised at the unbending spirit of the Boeothics; and as to their plundering the fishing-nets, they were undoubtedly compelled by hunger to do so, at the risk of being shot. Captain Duff , Montague, and other governors, issued proclamations, which were intended to protect the Boeothics; but little attention seems to have been paid by the settlers in the northern harbours, or by the furriers, to any legal authority, and the destruc- 4 tion of the Red Indians appeared to afford them as ' much sport as hunting beavers. > In 1803, a female Red Indian, in consequence of a reward offered by the governor, Admiral Lord Gambier , was taken by a fisherman, who surprised her while paddling her canoe towards a small island in 6