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at Red Indian Lake. Only tlieir graves and the mouldering le- 

 laains of their wigwams were i'unnd, liut no living Ik'uthik. 

 Silence deep as death reigned avonnd. There were i'ragiuents (if 

 their oanoe.s, their skin <lresses, their .storehouses, the rejKisitorie.s 

 of their dead ; ])ut no human sounds wei'c heard, no smoke 

 from wigwams mounted inUi the air, their camii-lires were ex- 

 tinguished, and the sad reenrd of an extinct race was closed for 

 ever. 



TIlKIi: KKLICS. 



In the Museum at St. John's may lie seen a collection of their 

 relics and remains which ha\e heen carefully iireseived. There 

 are a few skulls, some l)ones, and the almost jierfect skeleton of 

 a hoy, found in a gra\e on Pilley's Island, in a wonderful state 

 of preservation. Their tools, arrow-heads, gouges, and other 

 .stone imidements are to he seen, hut they are gone — 

 "Like the cloud-rack of a tempest. 

 Like the withered leaves of Autumn." 



DKSCKII'TIVK ACCOUNTS. 



A full account of all that is known ahout the Beothiks may 

 he found in "Hatton and Harvey's Newfoundland," in Rev. Dr. 

 Patterson's admirahle ])a])er lead hefore the Royal Society of 

 Canada on the "Beothiks, or Red Man of Newfoundland " ; also, 

 in "Cormack's Journey Across Newfoundland," and in Bonny- 

 castle's and Pedley's Newfoundland. Dr. Patterson's is the most 

 exhaustive account jMihlished. 



THK NOKTH MKX. 



It is highly proliahle that the hrst white men wlio saw the shores- 

 of Newfounilland were the Northmen. Five Inuulied year.s hefore 

 the time of Cahot these hohl adventurers led hy Lief, son of 

 Eric the Red, sailed from Gi-eenland in search of western lands. 

 Newfoundland lay directly in their course, and according to 

 their Sagas or hooks, on reaching it they gave it the name of 

 " Helluland," or the lauil of naked rocks. The daring sailors 

 passed on, however, and made no attemjit at forming a settle- 

 ment. Their adventiu'ou< voyage, in which tiny are said to- 

 have reached Rhode Islauil, took place in the year 1001. 



