NOTES ON NEWFOUNDLAND. 277 



them, ami threes pots madt! of hucIi rinds of trccH, stand- 

 ing each of them on three stoiioH, l)oyliiig, with twelve 

 fowk'H in each of them, every fowde as big as a widgeon 

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

 j)ots so served and fashioned, Hke leatlier buekets that 

 are used for (jueiiehing of fire, and those were full of 

 the yolks of eggs that they had taken and boyled hard 

 and 80 dried small as it had been powder sugar, which 

 the savages used in their broth as sugar is often used in 

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

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

 which were excellent well dresscnl, as also gre.'it store of 

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

 towards them they all ran awny, naked, without any 

 a])parall but only some of them hiid their hats on their 

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

 our lints sewed handsomely with narrow bands about 

 them set round with finv wliiti; shels. All their three 

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

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

 they tookc and brought away and shared it among those 

 that tooko 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 ns to endeavour to fiiide out some other 

 good trades with them." 



The zoology of Newfoundland is of a more Arctic type 

 than that of the neighbouring Acadian Provinces, being 

 characterised by the presence of the ptarmigan, and Arctic 

 hare, and showing a remarkable falling oif in the number 

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

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



