6 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. EDUCATION 64 



Academies Colleges Pupil Teachers London University 

 Centre Jubilee Scholarship Council of Higher Education. 



CHAPTER IX. TRANSPORTATION 68 



Roads unknown to Early Settlers Selfish Policy of the Mother 

 Country Fences and Chimneys Prohibited Reform begins in 

 1813 First Road in 1825 Road Grant in 1832 Road Build- 

 ing leads to Discovery of Minerals Visions of Railways Loom- 

 ing up Sir William Whiteway's Scheme First Railway Con- 

 tract in 1881 First Sod Cut In the Hands of a Receiver. 

 Change of Government and Railway Extension Sir William 

 Again at the Helm A New Survey Northern and Western 

 Railway Railway Extension means more Common Roads Mail 

 by Railway Route of Railway Newfoundland no Longer 

 an Island. 



CHAPTER X. THE ABORIGINES 84 



The Beothiks, or "Red Indians" Their Condition when Dis- 

 covered A Powerful and Warlike People A Change comes over 

 Their Dreams Their Decadence The Race Extinct A Melan- 

 choly Find The First White Man to Sight Newfoundland. 

 White Men Land on the Island From Eighteen to Two Hundred 

 Thousand. 



CHAPTER XI. PREPARATIONS FOR THE TRIP 91 



Too Many Caribou in Mr. Holbertson's Article Our Friend Goes 

 to New York and Returns with Pupils Dilated "Richard Le 

 Buffe, Hall's Bay, Notre Dame Bay, N. F." The Cree Stove 

 as Amended Cooking Utensils, etc., packed in Stove Bag- 

 gage Restrictions What We Carried The Medicine Chest Guns 

 and Ammunition The Protean Tent. 



CHAPTER XII. FROM NEW YORK TO ST. JOHN'S 105 



How to get to Newfoundland Red Cross Line The Silvia 

 and Portia Time Table and Rates of Fare No Duty and Twenty 

 Feet for Baggage Marching Orders Mistake No. 1 On Board 

 the Portia Off to the North Halifax Fog off Cape liace Away 

 to St. John's. 



CHAPTER XIII. THE CAPITAL AND ITS SIGHTS 114 



At St. John's The Stars and Strips Raised on Our Hotel A 

 Hospitable City Mistake No. 2 Game Laws of Newfoundland. 

 The Stipendiary Magistrate The License Purchasing Supplies. 

 Eight Men for Twenty Days Two Dollars a Day "Dry." 

 Packing for Cachr Mistake No. 3 Rubber "the only W T ear." 

 Seeing the City The Narrows A Land-locked Harbor The City. 

 Relative Distances The Museum The Cathedral Parliament 

 House Quidi Vidi. 



