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Storm, Prof. Qustav : " Studies on the Vineland Voyages." In Memoires 

 de la societe royale des antiquaires du Nord ; nouvelle serie. Copen- 

 hague, 1888. 8vo. The Beothuks are spoken of, pp. 361, 362. Storm 

 assumes, that the Helluland of the Norse explorers was Labrador; 

 Vineland, Nova Scotia ; Markland, Newfoundland. 



The Harbor Grace Standard and Conception Bay Advertiser : Linguistic 

 and biographic article. Date specified below. 



ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES. 



While returning from one of his annual explorations in the autumn of 

 1882, Mr. James P. Howley met Mr. Duggan, who owns a settlement at 

 La Scie, one of the more northern harbors of Newfoundland, in north- 

 east part of the isle ; he informed him that numerous stone implements 

 and utensils had at various times been found in his neighborhood, espe- 

 cially at Pacquet and Fleur-de-lys harbors,* and that the officers of the 

 French men-of-war, as well as the fishermen of that nationality, who 

 annually frequent that part of the island, took away many of these relics. 

 He noticed that the marine officers took special care in collecting such 

 specimens, and hence they may have been commissioned to do so by one 

 or some of the scientific institutions of' France. At Fleur-de-lys, he stated, 

 many stone pots were found, the material having been evidently quarried 

 from the steatite rock occurring in the neighborhood. Many cavities are 

 seen in the rock corresponding with the size of the pots themselves, while 

 others are still there half-grooved out. His description of the process, by 

 which he supposed the Indians performed this difficult task, struck Mr. 

 Howley forcibly as being identical with the one described in Lieut. Geo. 

 M. Wheeler's " Reports,'' Vol. vii, pp. 117-121 (" The Method of Manu- 

 facture of Soapstone Pots." By Paul Schumacher; with illustration ex- 

 hibiting method, p. 121). 



A pipe of black marble found on an island in White Bay, and given 

 away by Mr. Duggan's father to one of the French ship captains about 

 1830, had a large bowl and was beautifully finished, but part of the stem 

 was broken off. The carved figure of what seemed to be a dragon rested 

 against the inner side of the bowl, with its head projecting over the edge 

 of the latter, while the tail was twisted around the stem (a similarly carved 

 pipe from Vancouver's Island was deposited in the Geological Museum, 

 Ottawa). Before this it had always been asserted that the Beothuks were 

 not acquainted with tobacco or any narcotic usages ; but they had a word 

 lor tobacco, nechwa, and kinnikiunik as well as red-rod are abundant 

 upon the island ; when the Micmacs have run short of the white man's 

 tobacco, they make use of these. Black marble exists not far from where 

 the pipe was found. 



While engaged in locating land and making a survey of the Bay of 



* Fleur-de-lys island and harbor is situated near Partridge Point, in 50° 7" Lat. 



