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     they hadn‘t any provisions, and their boats had been hauled up 
     
     :or the winter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Luckily, people on shore became aware of the situation. 
     
     They found some flat—bottomed boats and hurried to the rescue 
     
     arriving in time to save the hunters and bring them ashore safely. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The next day a Dutch sealing schooner crew could be seen 
     
    
   
   
    
     taking on board the seal pelts that the hunters were forced to 
     
     abandon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MACGREGOR'S POINT 
     
    
   
   
    
     This was a headland on the MacGregor farm, a short distance 
     
     from where the early Scotch settlers landed in 1808—10. Many 
     
     indications showed that, at one time it was a French fishing 
     
     village. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Years afterwards, pieces of pottery, rust-eaten implements, 
     
     fragments of cooking utensils and traces of the old ridges that 
     
     separated the garden plots of each family, could be seen. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Island was in possession of the French but on the fall 
     
     of Louisburg in 1759 they hastily departed, burying some of their 
     
     most valuable belongings which they recovered in later years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mr. MacGregor told about a French schooner that anchored 
     
     off his place one night. A number of men were sent ashore from 
     
     it and began digging on the hill—side below his farm. The next 
     
     morning he found large excavations in different places and a 
     
     badly rusted pot which convinced him that they had found the 
     
     treasure which they had hidden years earlier, took it with them 
     
     to their vessel, and sailed away.