"Antelope" at Spithead.
25th November, 1809.
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I am sorry to inform Your Lordship that I am again disappointed in my
hopes of coming at the Native Indians (Beothuks); they still keep in
the interior of the Island (it is reported) from a dread of the
Micmacs, who come over from Cape Breton. The articles that were
purchased for them are deposited in the Naval Store House at St.
John's, where I have directed them to be kept for some future trial of
meeting with them.
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