MICMAC INDIANS. 



" RUGGED type of primal man, 

 Grim utilitarian ; 

 Loving woods for hunt and prowl, 

 Lake and hill for fish and fowl." WHITTIEB. 



I HAD almost forgotten to say that our road 

 to the mines ran across an Indian reserva- 

 tion. After the white men had disposessed the 

 red men of the lands they had owned for many 

 centuries, then the generous Christian granted 

 back again a small portion of his plunder. A 

 few Indians have lingered on these acres well 

 watered by streams and lakes, but his pale-face 

 brothers come there by dozens to whip the 

 waters for trout. Long ago the Indians bowed 

 to the inevitable ; resistance to the invaders 

 became hopeless. 



About three hundred and fifty years ago the 

 French made the acquaintance of these people 

 of the forest. That was their first introduction 

 to Europeans. They were hunters and trappers 

 and fishers. Not a single tool or weapon of 

 metal could be found among them. They 



