MR CORMACK 'S EXPEDITION. 25.9 during the winter of 1823, on the ice, at , an arm of Notre . Three of the women gave themselves up, in a starving condition, to a party of furriers ; one of them, Shanandithit, was afterwards brought to John's, through the human¬ ity of the members of the Boeothic Institution. A few days before these women surrendered themselves, 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 woman, in despair, remained calmly to be fired at, 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 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 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