d here, when they received
their submission in a formal manner, by subscribing to articles,
(drawn suitable to the case,) whereby among other things, they have
obliged themselves and people they represent, to come to Bay Verte
with all their effects and shipping as early in the spring as
possible, in order to be disposed of as Governor Lawrence shall
direct. With the French Priest, came two Indian Chiefs, Paul
Lawrence and Augustin Michael; Lawrence tells me he was a prisoner
in Boston, and lived with Mr. Henshaw, a blacksmith; he is Chief of
a tribe at Richibucto. I have received their submissions, for
themselves and for their tribes, to His Britannic Majesty, and sent
them to Halifax for the terms by Governor Lawrence. I have likewise
received the submission of two other Chiefs, who I dealt with as
before mentioned, and was in hopes I had no more treaties to make
with savages; but he told me I was mistaken for there would be a
great many more upon the same business, as soon as their spring
hunting was over: and upon my enquiring how many, he gave a list of
fourteen Chiefs, including those already mentioned, (copy of which
I have inclosed) most of which he said would come. I was surprised
to hear of such a number of Indian Chiefs in this part of America,
and Mr. Manack further told me that they were all of one nation,
and known by the name of Mickmacks; that they were very numerous,
amounting to near three thousand souls; that he had learned their
language since he had been among them, and found so much excellence
in it, that he was well persuaded if the beauties of it were known
in Europe, there would be seminaries erected for the propagation of
it. How that might be, is better known to him than to those who
know nothing of the language; but I think I may venture to say,
that if there be so many of these Indians, as he says there are, I
know this Province, as it abounds very plentifully with furs, may
reap a vast advantage by them, provided Canada returns not into the
hands of the French.

About the time that Mr. Manack arrived here, there came in eight
men, one of whom was a New-England man, one Irishman, and the rest
Italians and Spaniards; who informed me they deserted from a French
frigate that lay froze in at the head of Gaspe harbour. The two
former belonged to a vessel