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tliem, and three pots made of such rinds of trees, stand- 

 ing each of them on three stones, boyling, with twelve 

 fowles in each of them, every fowle as big as a widgeon 

 and some so big as a ducke ; they had also many such 

 pots so served and fashioned, like leather buckets that 

 are used for quenching of fire, and those were full of 

 the yolks of eggs that they had taken and boyled hard 

 and so dried small as it had been powder sugar, which 

 the sa values used in their broth as supfar is often used in 

 some meates ; they had great store of the skins of deere, 

 beavers, beares, seals, otters and divers other fine skins 

 which were excellent well dressed, as also great store of 

 severall sorts of flesh dryed, and by shooting off a musket 

 towards them they all ran away, naked, without any 

 apparall but only some of them had their hats on their 

 heads, which were made of scale skins, in fashion like 

 our hats sewed handsomely with narrow bands about 

 them set round with fine white shels. All their three 

 cannows, their flesh, skins, yolks of eggs, targets, bows 

 and arrows, and much fine okar, and divers others things 

 they tooke and brought away and shared it among those 

 that tooke it, and they brought to me the best cannow, 

 bows, and arrows and divers of their skins and many 

 other artificial things worth the noting which may seeme 

 much to invite us to endeavour to finde out some other 

 good trades with them." 



The zoology of Newfoundland is of a more Arctic t3rpe 

 than that of the neighbouring Acadian Provinces, being 

 characterised by the presence of the ptarmigan, and Arctic 

 hare, and showing a remarkable falling off in the number 

 of species of the continental fauna. Thus there is not a 

 squirrel on the island, and neither porcupine, racoon, or 



