210 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



look down upon us from the walls of our home, re- 

 newing daily the pleasure we found in the pursuit. 

 Go and do likewise. 



THE MICMAC INDIANS. 



As reference has been made in the preceding chap- 

 ters to the Micmacs of Newfoundland, a few words 

 about them may not be out of place, as they are the 

 only Indian inhabitants. They belong to the eastern 

 branch of the Algonquin family, representatives of 

 which are also found in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick 

 and Lower Canada. Some thirty families of them 

 are located around Hall's Bay, and compose about all 

 on the island. They live in houses like the white men, 

 speak a little broken English, cultivate small patches 

 of ground, and eke out a livelihood by fishing and 

 hunting. They are all Roman Catholics, and in front 

 of their cemetery on the north shore of Hall's Bay the 

 cross and a totem-pole stand side by side, and are 

 guarded with jealous care. Many of these people are 

 afflicted with tuberculosis of the throat and lungs, from 

 which cause there are a number of deaths every year. 

 Notwithstanding his attempts at civilized life, this 

 member of the aboriginal race is moving towards the 

 extinction which seems to be the fate of the red man 

 in every portion of the new world. 



