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diphthongs. In my detailed report, I would pro- 133% toihave plates of these articles, and also of the like articles used by other tribes of Indians, that a comparative idea may be formed of them; and When the Indian female, Shanandithit, arrives in St John’s, I would recommend that a correct likeness of her be taken, and be preserved in the records of the institution. One of the specimens of mineralogy which we found in our excursion, was a block of what is called Labrador felspar, nearly four and a half feet in length, by about three feet in breadth and thickness. This is the largest piece of that beautiful rock yet discovered anywhere. Our sub- sistence in the interior was entirely animal food, deer and beavers, which we shot.”

The Boeothic Institution of St John’s placed the Indians who had accompanied Mr Cormack, on their establishment, to be employed under his immediate direction and control, as president, for the purpose of discovering the abodes of the Red Indians.

The Indian woman, Shanandithit, was also brought to St John’s, where she lived in Mr Cormack’s house, until he left the colony in 1829, when she was taken into the house of the Attorney-General, Mr Simms. She died in June following. A New- foundland paper of the 12th June, 1829, notices her death by stating—“ Died, on Saturday night, the 6th instant, at the hospital, Shanandithit, the female Indian, one of the aborigines of this island. She died of consumption, a disease Which seems to have been remarkably prevalent among her tribe, and