The three females were brought to St. John’s, where they remained four or five weeks, and were then sent back to the Exploits with many presents, in the hope that they may meet and share such presents with their people.  They were conveyed up the river Exploits to some distance, by a party of Europeans, and left on its banks with some provisions and clothing, to find their friends as they best might.  Their provisions however were soon consumed, and not finding any of the tribe, they wandered down the right bank of the river, and in a few days again reached the Exploits habitations.  The mother and one daughter died there shortly afterwards, and within a few days of each other.  The Survivor known as “Nancy” here, but among her tribe as “Shaw-na-dith-it,” was received and taken care of by Mr. Peyton, jun. and family, with whom she remained several years.  She was then brought to St. John’s, and as a Society called the “Boeothick Institution” had then been established, Shaw-na-dith-it became the object of its peculiar care and solicitude, and it is to this interesting woman we are indebted for much of the information we possess regarding her race.  She remained under the care of the Boeothick Institution for about nine months, during the greater part pf which period she was in bad health.  Much attention was shewn her, and attempts were perseveringly made to communicate to her a knowledge of the English language, and this she so far acquired as to be able to communicate with tolerable ease.  In person Shaw-na-dith-it was 5 feet 5 inches high—­her natural abilities were good.  She was grateful for any kindness shown her, and evinced a strong affection for her parents and friends.  As she evinced some taste for drawing, she was kept supplied with pencils of various colors, and by the use of these made herself better understood than she otherwise could have done.  In her own person she had received two gun-shot wounds at two different times from volleys fired at the band she was with by the English people at the Exploits—­one wound was that of a slug through the leg.  Poor Shaw-na-dith-it! she died destitute of any of this world’s goods, yet, desirous of showing her gratitude to one from whom she had received great kindness, she presented a keepsake to Mr. Cormack, and there is something very affecting under the circumstances in which she was placed, as associated with the simple articles of which her present consisted—­they were a rounded piece of granite—­a piece of quartz—­both derived from the soil of which her tribe were once the sole owners and lords, but which were all of that soil she could then call her own; and added to these, was a lock of her hair.  This present has now a place in the Museum of the Mechanics’ Institution, and will, it may not be doubted, be an object of interest to many.  Shaw-na-dith-it lived in Mr. Cormack’s house until he left the colony in 1829, when she was taken to the house of the then Attorney-General.  She died in June following, and was interred in the burial