female who was captured and carried away by force from this
place by an armed party of English people, nine or ten in
number, who came up here in the month of March, 1809. The local
government authorities at that time did not foresee the result
of offering a reward to _bring a Red Indian to them_. Her
husband was cruelly shot, after nobly making several attempts,
single-handed, to rescue her from the captors, in defiance of
their fire-arms, and fixed bayonets. His tribe built this
cemetery for him, on the foundation of his own wigwam, and his
body is one of those now in it. The following winter, Captain
Buchan was sent to the River Exploits, by order of the local
government of Newfoundland, to take back this woman to the lake,
where she was captured, and if possible at the same time, to
open a friendly intercourse with her tribe. But she died on
board Captain B.'s vessel, at the mouth of the river. Captain B.
however, took up her body to the lake; and not meeting with any
of her people, left it where they were afterwards likely to meet
with it. It appears the Indians were this winter encamped on the
banks of the River Exploits, and observed Captain B.'s party
passing up the river on the ice. They retired from their
encampments in consequence; and, some weeks afterwards, went by
a circuitous route to the lake, to ascertain what the party had
been doing there. They found _Mary March's_ body, and removed it
from where Captain B. had left it to where it now lies, by the
side of her husband.

With the exception of Captain Buchan's first expedition, by
order of the local government of Newfoundland, in the winter of
1810, to endeavour to open a friendly intercourse with the Red
Indians, the two parties just mentioned are the only two we know