IS'o.l '*1'^ [Gatschet. 



Jukes, J. B., of the Geolog. Survey. Excursions iu and about New- 

 foundland. Two vois., 8vo, Lond., 1842, 12rao. On the Beothuks cf. ii, 

 126, 132, 133, 170-175. 



Gobineau, Comte A. de ; Voyage a Terre-Neuve, Paris, 1861. 



Latham, Rob. Gordon; Comparative Philology. London, 1862, 8vo, 

 pp. 453-455. 



Perley, Rev. Ghas., the history of Newfoundland from the earliest times 

 to the year 1860. Lond., 1863, 8vo (with map). Cf 338 sqq. The 

 Appendix vii, pp. 506-522, contains extracts from W. E. Cormack's 

 "Itinerary through the central parts of the island," extending from 

 August 30 to the middle of November, 1822. 



Tocque, Rev. Ph., Newfoundland as it was, etc. London, 1878 ; illustr. ; 

 pp. 511. 



J. Hatton and M. Harvey, Newfoundland, its history, etc. Boston, 1883. 

 On pp. 184-186, vocab. oi Mary March. (Not seen by me). 



"Were published in the .Journal of Anthropological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, the following four treatises : 



Lloyd, T. G. B., M. A. I., On the Beothucs, a tribe of Red Indians, sup- 

 posed to be extinct, which formerly inhabited Newfoundland. Vol. iv, 

 1874, pp. 21-30, with vocabulary of Mary March, taken by the Rev. John 

 Leigh, and presented to Mr. John Peyton. 



Lloyd, T. G. B. ; A further account of the Beothucs of Newfoundland. 

 Vol. V, 1875, pp. 222-230, with a plate. 



Lloyd, T. G. B. ; On the Stone Implements of Newfoundland ; ibid. pp. 

 223-243. Three plates. 



Bmk, Geo., F.R.S., Description of two Beothuc skulls ; ibid. pp. 230- 

 232, one plate. 



John Cnrtwright, Remarks on the Situation of the Red Indians, &c. ; 

 unpublished manuscript of 1768, now in possession of the Protestant Bishop 

 of Newfoundland, and extracted by Mr. Lloyd in his first article ; cf. iv, 

 p. 22 sqq. 



LANGUAGE OF THE BEOTHUK. 



The enumeration of ethnologic peculiarities of the Newfoundland tribe 

 in question is not the main purpose of the present article. The results 

 obtained by former writers from an investigation of their language not 

 proving satisfactory to me, I have subjected the fragments which have 

 reached down to our period to a new chirographic and critical examina- 

 tion, for the purpose of drawing all the conclusions that can fau-ly be 

 drawn from them for ascertaining affinities, and thereby shed some light 

 upon the origin of the Red Indians. This research I undertook partly on 

 my own impulse, partly upon the earnest solicitation of Mr. James P. How- 

 leys, surveyor and assistant geologist of the Government at St. John's, the 

 capital of Newfoundland. Through his numerous expeditions he has 

 become perfectly familiar with all parts of this large isle, which in the 

 extent of its area (42,000 square miles), closely approaches that of the 



