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of the ocean telegraph which now ties their island to 

 Europe. In figure 5 I have given a representation of 

 the ornaments and one of the weapons of a Red Indian 

 warrior, found in a cavern, with the bones of their 

 owner, on an island on the eastern coast of New- 

 foundland.* The strung shells are those of Purpura 

 lapillus. The beads are made from the shell of a 

 large species of Mactra; the pendants are neatly 

 carved in the ivory of the walrus ; the arrow-head is 

 quite palaeolithic. These objects were taken from a 

 grave which also contained the oxidized remains of 

 an iron hatchet, some red ochre used as paint, and a 

 portion of a walrus tusk, part of which had been cut 

 away for use. The date is probably that of the 

 earliest French visitors of Newfoundland, and presents 

 a curious association of the ages of iron, of bone, and 

 of rudely chipped stone. 



Crossing to the opposite side of the gulf, he had 

 some slight intercourse with the Micmacs of w the coast 

 of New Brunswick, whom he rightly characterises as 

 a coast tribe, going from place to place in their bark 

 canoes, of which he saw as many as forty or fifty 

 together ; living in summer mainly on fish, and form- 

 ing extensive shell heaps on the coast, though in 



* " Transactions of Nova Scotia Institute," vol. i. These 

 remains were found in 1847 by Kev. M. Blackmore. Beside 

 the objects mentioned above, there were glass beads, a bone 

 spear, and the remains of an iron knife. All the objects were 

 near the head of the skeleton. This had been wrapped in 

 birch bark, and near it were fragments of a carved piece of 

 wood. 



