APPENDIX A — THE RED INDIAN OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 71 



THE RED INDIA^T OF NEAA^FOUNDLAND. 



(Abstract of a paper read January 2nd, 1894, by H. George Addy, M. D.] 



Dr. Addy, in introducing his subject, gave extracts 

 from the Avritings of the early explorers of Newfound- 

 land referring to the aborigines of that country. 



A graphic picture was drawn of the happy and 

 primitive life of these people when the Cabots visited 

 ISTewfoundland, and the sad story of their cruel exter- 

 mination was briefly told. 



Mr. Cormack was the first white man to cross the 

 island, and he reported these Indians to be a fine, hardy 

 race of men, subsisting by the chase and living a simple 

 life. 



Richard "Whitbourne, in his work on tlie island, 

 (published 1622) thus describes them: "The natural 

 inhabitants of the country, as they are but few in number, 

 so are they a somewhat rude and savage people, having 

 neither knowledge of God nor living under any kind of 

 civil government. In their habits, customs and manners 

 they resemble the Indians on the continent, from whence, 

 I suppose, they came. They live altogether in the north 

 and west part of the country. The French (who resort 

 thither yearly for the whale fishing and also for the cod- 

 fish) report them to be an ingenious and tractable people, 

 being well used.'" 



After quoting in detail various authorities to account 

 for the origin of the Red Indian, he summed up the 

 evidence to show that they w^ere the vanguard of the 

 Algonquin trilies, driven to the extreme eastern coast by 



