[Cd. 4197.]   Price 2d....

Government House, St. John's, 8th July, 1908. My Lord, I have the honour to inform you that I left St. John's on the 28th May to visit the settlement of the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir, on the south coast of this Island. Bay d'Espoir is a long inlet of the sea, extending up country over a score of miles. The district is hilly, and is covered by a forest of rather small trees, spruce and birch, but further inland the hills are generally bare. There are comparatively few European residents in t

Newfoundland. No. To all to whom these Presents shall come, I, Anthony Musgrave , Esquire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island of Newfoundland and its Dependencies, &c., &c. Send Greeting: Whereas of                                     desirous of permanently settling on the Land hereinafter mentioned: Know ye , that in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of the Legislature of this Colony, passed in the 23rd year of the Reign of Her pre

"Antelope" at Spithead. 25th November, 1809.         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         ·         · 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