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coured the whites who then proposed to adjourn until the next morning to meet again and settle the affair.
About 9 .am.
June 24 1877 -
A second meeting was held on the schooner and we at once resolved to send the man down and a paper was drawn up by Mr. Turner and myself requesting the Revenue Cutter to make this place a visit in order to overawe the natives who are becoming slightly unruly and are causing a fear of some serious results arising from their violence.
Some of the more impetuous were for shooting the man at once while the others preferred sending him away.
When he was captured on the mainland, he made no 
resistance but said kill me but don't hurt my brother.
The cause of this will be mentioned below. The cause of the murder was as follows: Kunuqan was employed about the house of Mr. John Clark, a near neighbor of Mr. Boyles, during the winter but stealing a quantity of furs from his employer he was discharged upon suspicion. As he had sold Mr. Boyle a portion of the furs he feared detection from that quarter and so after vainly endeavoring to persuade his brother, a boy who was living with Mr. Boyle to kill Mr. B. he loaded his musket and going to B. house in the afternoon shot Mr. B. in the back of the head as he sat writing, killing him instantly . The ball then buried itself in the wall. Kunuqan wet a piece of paper and then pasted it over the bullet hole