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PROCEEDINGS 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXVIII. January to June, 1890. No. 132. 



THE BEOTHUK INDIANS. 



By Albert S. Gatschet. 



Third Article., 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, January 3, 1SOO.) 



Among the three vocabularies which I have recently had the good for- 

 tune of receiving, there is one just as old as the century, and another 

 comes from an aged person who has actually heard words of the language 

 pronounced by a Beothuk Indian. I take pleasure in placing these lists 

 before the Society, together with a number of new ethnographic facts 

 gathered in the old haunts of the extinct race, which will prove to be of 

 scientific value. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Since my first article the following publications on the Beothuk Indians 

 have come to my notice : 



Blake, Mrs. Edith: "The Beothuk Indians," in the monthly periodical, 

 Nineteenth Century (Kegan & Co., publishers, London), December, 

 1888, pp. 899-918. This article contains important extracts from J. 

 Cartwright's manuscript and interesting details about Shauandithit. 

 An American reprint of the Nineteenth Century is published by Leonard 

 Scott, New York City. 



Murray, Chas. .Aug. (author of the "Prairie Bird," etc.): "The Red In- 

 dians of Newfoundland." Philadelphia : T. B. Peterson, 98 Chest- 

 nut street (no date, about 1850 ?) ; illustrated. The book is pure 

 fiction ; the first chapter alone contains some ethnologic points. 



New York Herald, Correspondence of. Date specified below. 



Stearns, Winfrid Alden : ' ' Labrador : A Sketch of its Peoples, its Indus- 

 tries," etc. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1884. Small 8vo, 8 and 295 

 pages. The description, pp. 254-272, suggests interesting compari- 

 sons of the Labrador Indians with the Beothuks. 

 proc. amer philos. soc. xxviii. 132. a. printed FEB. 12, 1890. 



