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an introduction for the whole. In addition to this work he has 
edited and largely recast a manuscript on Indian trails by the 
late Mr. W. E. Myer. Also, with the assistance of Miss 
Atkins, he has begun incorporating into an alphabetical card 
index all words in the Timucua language contained in the 
religious works of the Franciscan missionaries Pareja and 
Movilla—nearly all that is left to us of this old Florida 
tongue. Nearly one-third of the work has been completed. 
On the Ist of July, 1928, Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnolo- 
gist, was on board the Sagona en route to Labrador. He 
reached the Northwest River on July 4, where he found a few 
Nascapi Indians, one from Davis Inlet, besides the ordinary 
Montagnais Indians of the vicinity. From his work among 
these Indians it follows that the language of the Nascapi and 
Davis Inlet Indians is the same, and that instead of being a 
wholly distinct language it is nothing but a Montagnais 
dialect. Furthermore, it is abundantly clear that the 
dialects of the above-named Indians form a distinct unit as 
compared to the Montagnais dialects of Lake St. John and 
Lake Mistassini, as well as the so-called Cree of Rupert’s 
House and the East Main River, which really are not Cree 
at all but Montagnais dialects. The report of some Indians 
to the west of the Nascapi speaking a language unintelligible 
to them is worth investigating at a later date. It may be 
noted that the folklore of the Indians of Labrador contains 
more elements occurring among Central Algonquians than 
has been suspected. The very simple social organization of 
the Labrador Indians makes it very probable that the rather 
complex organizations of the Central Algonquians are 
unoriginal and are due both directly and indirectly to the 
influence of non-Algonquian tribes. He was able to measure 
only a few of the Indians at the Northwest River, so it is 
not possible to state precisely which physical type they 
represent. 
At the conclusion of his work he returned to Rigolet and 
left on July 22 for St. Johns, Newfoundland. En route he 
was able to take the measurements of a few Eskimos. On 
his arrival at St. Johns he proceeded by steamer and train 
for Tama, Iowa, to renew his researches among the Fox 
