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during the winter of 1823, on the ice, at New Bay, an arm of Notre Dame Bay. Three of the women gave themselves up, in a starving condition, to a party of furriers; one of them, Shanandithit, was afterwards brought to St J ohn’s, through the human- ity of the members of the Boeothic Institution. A c few days before these women surrendered themselves, :3 and not far distant, two English furriers shot a man and woman of the tribe, who appeared to approach Soliciting food. The man was first killed; and the :1 woman, in despair, remained calmly to be fired at, i when she Was also shot through the back and chest, and immediately expired. Mr Cormack was told this ,. by the very white barbarian who shot her. ,

Such was the fate of this tribe ; and to the enter- prise and philanthropy of Mr Cormack, we owe all that remains to be told of them. That gentleman kindly furnished me with a brief narrative of his last expedition, as contained in the statement laid by him, on his return to St John’s, before the Boeothic Insti- tution. It is so'very interesting, and, at the same time, so sufficiently brief, as to justify my transcri- bing it in full. Mr Cormack, in company with the Honourable Augustus Wallet Desbarres, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, pro- ceeded in a government vessel to Twillingate, the most northerly settlement. Before Mr Cormack’s final departure from this place, a numerous meeting of the friends of the expedition was held. On this occa— sion, Mr Cormack, after the object of the expedition had been eulogized by Judge Desbarres, addressed