2.58 ABORIGINES OV NEWFOUNDLAND . Nothing further was known of this extraordinary tribe, until the winter of 1819, when a party of fur¬ riers proceeded up to the Red Indian Lake, where they met two men and a woman on the ice. They : made a prisoner of the woman ; hut her husband,^ who became desperate, and determined to rescue her//'/ single-handed, was most unjustly and cruelly shot> by the brutal party, who also shot the other man. '. They carried oft' the woman, whom they called Mary March , being the name of the month in which they made her a captive. Her husband, whom they mur¬ dered, was a most noble-looking man, about six feet high. This woman was carried to John's, and, in the following winter, was sent back to the river Exploits, in charge of Captain Buchan . She died on board his vessel, at the mouth of the river; but he carried her body up to the lake, where he left it in a coffin, in a place where he knew her tribe would likely find it. It appears that a party of them was encamped at this time near the banks of the river, who observed Captain Buchan on the ice, and afterwards carried away the body of Mary March , which they deposited alongside of that of her husband.* The last time any of the Beeothics were seen, was then at the Grand Lake, in different encampments. A suspicion spread among them that Captain Buchan had gone down to bring up a party of men from the sea-coast to make all the Beeothics prisoners. They accordingly determined on breaking up their en¬ campments, and to alarm and join the rest of their tribe, who were encamped on the western side of the lake. To prevent their pro¬ ceedings being known, they decapitated the marines. * See Mr Cormack 's Narrative hereafter.