The man was first killed, and the woman, who was afterwards found to be his daughter, in despair remained calmly to be fired at, when she was also shot through the chest and immediately expired.

This was told Mr.Cormack by the man who did the deed." Even English women in the late eighteenth century were celebrated for their skill "in shooting Red Indians and seals".
"For a period of nearly two hundred years this barbarity had continued, and it was considered meritorious to shoot a Red Indian.
'To go to look for Indians' came to be as much a phrase as to look for partridges (ptarmigan).

They were harassed from post to post, from island to island; their hunting and fishing stations were unscrupulously seized by the invading English.

They were shot down without the least provocation, or captured to be exposed as curiosities to the rabble at the fairs of the western towns of Christian England at twopence a piece."[16] [Footnote 16: These are the remarks of an English chaplain in the island, quoted by the Rev.George Patterson, who contributed a most interesting article on the vanished Beothiks of Newfoundland to the Royal Society of Canada in 1891.] Too late--when the worry and anxiety of the Napoleonic wars were over--the British Government sent a commission of naval officers to enquire into the treatment of the Beothiks by the settlers.

One woman alone remained, as a frightened semi-captive, to be consoled and soothed.