Identifier: newfoundlandin00mcgr (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGrath, P. T. (Patrick Thomas), b. 1868
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: London : Whitehead, Morris & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Right Hon. Sir E. P. MORRIS, P.C, K.C., LL.D.
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the tribe had murdered his two mariners, in the belief
that the naval party had destroyed the Indians who had
been taken along. In 1819, John Peyton, of Twillingate,
having represented to Governor Hamilton that Beothics
were in that vicinity, was empowered to treat with them,
and surprised a party in their wigwam by crossing the
ice on the Exploits River. He captured a woman,
later known as Mary March, whose husband, the
chief, was shot by Peyton as he tried to kill him with
an axe stolen from some settler's boat. She was
brought to St. Johns, treated well during the winter,
and sent back in the spring on a naval craft, but died
on the way. Her body was coffined, taken to a wigwam
inland, and there erected on a platform, to preserve it
from wild animals, with the idea that others of the
tribe might come upon it and bury it according to
native custom; and in 1828, when Cormack, the first
white man to traverse the interior, passed that way, he
noted that the body had been removed, later finding it
buried according to the Indian custom.

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