19G cha];actei!Isti('8 of the people. 



finements in tante and habits of life. AVlieu young Newfound- 

 landers go to other countiies for the jjrofes.sional training not 

 yet attainable at liome, they are able, in many instances, to com- 

 pete successfully with other youths and to win honours at school 

 and college. Indeed, anyone wlio comes into contact with the 

 masses of the people cannot fail to be struck with their mental 

 quickness and general intelligence. Let education do its work 

 and it will be found that here is a people who, when duly cul- 

 tured, will j^lay ]io unwortliy part in the world of the future, 

 and will compete -witli tlie l)rain-^vorkers of the coming age in 

 all departments of lii'e. 



MOKAt, QUALITIES. 



It is admitted on all hands that a more moral, ordeily and' 

 law-abiding people cannot be found elsewhere. Serious crime is 

 rare and the proportion of offenders against the law to the whole 

 population is very small. Temperance has made great progress 

 among them, and on the whole they are a sober people. Their 

 kindness and hospitality to strangers who visit the country are 

 proverlnal. A traveller finds himself at once at home in New- 

 foundland whether in the capital or the more distant settlements,, 

 and all vie with eacli other in showing him attention and kind- 

 ness. Quiet, orderly, church-going, attached to their religious 

 faith, the people live j^eaceably among themselves, and outbreaks 

 of l)igotr3' or fanaticism are noAV almost unknown. Kindness to 

 the poor and indigent is a marked feature in the character of the 

 people ; and when through failure of the precarious fisheries, dis- 

 tress occurs, the fishermen help each other to the full extent of 

 their mean^, and often share to the last morsel with those who 

 are more destitute than themselves. Charitable societies for the 

 relief of the poor arc organized in the capital and the chief towns. 

 In no other country is there a more generous liberality shown to 

 sufferers when oveitaken by calamity or misfortune. 



Sm II. liONNYCASTLE'S OPINION. 



Sir Richard Bonnycastle, who resided for some time in New- 

 foundland, and knew the country and people well, in his book 



