THE ESKIMO IN LABRADOR. 257 



August 30, 1772, "500 or thereabouts" Eskimos ar- 

 rived at Charles's Harbor from Chateau Bay to the south- 

 ward, to meet their relations from London, whom Cart- 

 wright had the year previous taken with him to London, 

 some of them having died in England of the small-pox. 

 In April and May, 1776, Eskimos were observed living 

 near Huntington Island. Many Eskimos died in Ivuk- 

 toke Inlet, probably from the small-pox, brought over 

 from England. Cartwright also reports seeing Eskimos 

 at Huntington Island in 1783, also at Chateau Bay, where 

 they were observed in 1786. 



The foregoing extracts abundantly prove that the Es- 

 kimos repeatedly crossed to Newfoundland, residing, dur- 

 ing the summer at least, on the outer islands opposite 

 Belle Isle. No reference is made to the former presence 

 of the Eskimos in Newfoundland. It is not improbable 

 that there was at least a slight intercourse between the 

 Bethuks, the aborigines of Newfoundland, said to be a 

 branch of the Algonkins, and found to be in possession 

 of the island by Cabot in 1497. A stone vessel dug up 

 with other Bethuk remains is described as " an oblong 

 vessel of soft magnesian stone, hollowed to the depth of 

 two inches, the lower edges forming a square of three 

 and a half inches in the sides. In one corner is a hollow 

 groove, which apparently served as a spout."* If this is, 

 as has been suggested to iis by Professor Tylor, attribut- 

 able to the influence of Eskimo art, the style may have 

 been suggested by the possible intercourse of these ab- 

 origines with the wandering Eskimos. 



* Newfoundland, its history, its present condition, and its prospects in the 

 future. By Joseph Hatton and the Rev. M. Harvey, Boston, 1883, p. 169. See 

 also Mr. Lloyd's paper, Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Brit- 

 ain and Irelind. 



