86 CARIBOU SHOOTING IN NEWFOUNDLAND. 



developed physically, ingenious, of quick intelligence, 

 gentle in manners, and inclined to be friendly to the 

 pale-faces. The great island, with its abundance of 

 wild creatures of many species, and its shores, lakes 

 and rivers swarming with fish, was to them a perfect 

 paradise. Countless herds of reindeer Avaridered over 

 the marshes in the interior in their migrations, at 

 which times their capture was easily accomplished, 

 even with the simple devices in the possession of 

 these children of the forest. The flesh furnished 

 them with their most nutritious food, while from 

 their pelts they made the best waterproof leather, 

 with which they clothed their feet as well as covered 

 their wigwams, insuring them against the severity of 

 the long winters. These hides, being better adapted 

 for making " buckskin," than those of any other of 

 the deer family, together with the skins of the beaver, 

 wolf and bear, gave them abundant and comfortable 

 clothing. They practiced no agriculture, but the wild 

 berries in their luxuriant growth supplied them with 

 an abundance of vegetable food. 



A CHANGE COMES OVER THE DREAMS OF THE 

 BEOTHIKS 



That very ancient principle in nature's laws of the 

 survival of the fittest came in force with the appear- 



