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Beausejour district? There is no record to tell us. This fleet had sailed from Cumberland Basin, at the head of the Bay of Fundy, on the 13th of October, bound for Georgia, North and South Carolina. On the 21st of the same month another one, composed of thirteen vessels, convoyed by two frigates, left Minas Basin, bordering the home of Evangeline, with 2,697 of the inhabitants of that locality. Of these transports three had sailing orders for Philadelphia, one for Boston, four for Maryland and five for Virginia. These also, as they went down the bay, were noticed by Belliveau and his companions.

At last they got information through some Indians met by their watching party that the people of Annapolis had been shipped off on board two ships, three "snows" and one brigantine, convoyed by a Baltimore sloop of war. This fleet, with its sixteen hundred and sixty-four prisoners, sailed from Goat Island, at the head of Annapolis Basin, on Monday the 8th of December, at five o'clock in the morning, bound for Boston, South Carolina, New York and Connecticut.

Had Belliveau and his companions remained a few weeks longer in their hiding place, they would have seen other transports going down the bay with human cargoes. On the 6th of the same month one sailed from Minas Basin, bound for Virginia, with 150 prisoners. Two others, having on board 350 Acadians, left the same place on the 13th of the same month, one for Boston and the other for Connecticut. At last, on the 20th of December, two other vessels left Minas Basin with 230 prisoners. One was bound for Boston and the other for Virginia.

Summing up the above figures, we have a total of 6,031 Acadians of Annapolis, Kings, Hants, Colchester and Cumberland counties, who were shipped off in thirty-four vessels. But this is not all.