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from Newfoundland, and for the same reason as the Tas- 

 manians vanished from Tasmania. Continental aborigines, 

 white savages, and consumption, which is a white man's . 

 malady, accelerated their doom; but how could they fish 

 where white men hauled the seine ? or hunt without dogs or 

 guns, where white men and Micmacs hunted with dogs and 

 guns ? They could not dig, and to beg they were ashamed. 

 There was nothing for them to do but die. In 1827 W. E. 

 Cormack, fired with the enthusiasm of humanity, founded an 

 Institute at St. John's for civilizing the Beothics; but in 1827 

 there was only one Beothic in the world, and she was a poor 

 captive, who was dying of consumption in the hospital at St. 

 John's ; and was it really worth while to found an Institute in 

 order to civilize her? Moreover, she died in 1829, and with 

 her died the last of the Beothics. But the Institute flourished 

 more and more. 



Labrador, (east of River St. John), the Magdalens, and Labrador 

 Anticosti were united with Newfoundland from 1763 101774, gf^^pigd ^ 

 and Labrador was the scene of more successful intercourse, 

 not only with the Mountaineer Indians — who, like the Beothics, 

 were Algonquins and lived inland, — but with the Eskimos, 

 who caught whales and seals upon the coasts. Said Lord 

 Mansfield (1780), ' Since the Treaty of Paris a new trade has 

 been opened to Labrador.' ^ 



Governor Palliser (1764-8) built Fort Pitt in Pitt Harbour by Palli- 

 (Ch^teau Bay) and garrisoned it with marines, both summer ^^^J wZt- 

 and winter, in order that the prophecy of Parkhurst (1578) English 

 might be fulfilled, that if we peopled and fortified Chateau ^"^y ferseymen 

 we should be 'lords of the fishing in small time '. Immediately a^id Major 

 afterwards Messrs. Noble and Pinson, of Dartmouth, opened ^^^I'jif . 

 establishments at Temple Bay (Chateau Bay), and L'Anse-a- and to be 

 Loup ; while Nicholas Darby, of Bristol, went to Charles V^^j^^ ^Vew- 

 Harbour and Seal Island, a few miles north-west of Q,2:^t fo^mdland ; 

 Charles (1767). In 1770 Captain George Cartwright suc- 

 ^ Noble V. Kennaway, Douglas's Reports^ vol. ii, p. 512. 



