480 Notes on the Labrador Eskimo [May, 
England. Cartwright also reports seeing Eskimo at Huntington 
island in 1783, also at Chateau bay, where they were observed 
in 1786. 
The foregoing extracts abundantly prove that the Eskimo 
_ repeatedly crossed to Newfoundland, residing, during the summer 
at least, on the outer islands opposite Belle Isle. No reference is 
made to the former presence of the Eskimo in Newfoundland. It 
is not improbable that there was at least a slight intercourse, be- 
tween the Bethuks, the aborigines of Newfoundiand, 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 “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 us by Professor Tylor, attributable to the 
influence of Eskimo art, the style may have been suggested by 
the possible intercourse of these aborigines with the wandering 
imo. 
In connection with the subject of the relations between the In- 
dians of Newfoundland and the Labrador Eskimo, may be cited 
the following statement of that industrious historian, the late 
Jesuit, Father Vetromile. In an article entitled “ Acadia and its 
Aborigines,” he says: “ The Etchimins, Micmacs and Abenakis 
are very often considered as one nation, not only on account of 
the similarity of their language, customs, suavity of manners and 
attachment to the French, but also for their league in defending 
themselves against the English. Although the Micmacs are 
generally somewhat smaller in size than the other Indians of 
Acadia and New France, yet they are equally brave. They have 
made a long war against the Esquimaux (eaters of raw flesh), 
whom they have followed and attacked in their caverns and rocks 
of Labrador. Newfoundland must have several times been the 
field of hard wars between the Micmacs and Esquimaux; the 
latter were always chased by the former” (p. 339). 
Whether these statements are well grounded, we cannot say, 
: ean its history, its present condition, and its prospects in the future. 
Joseph Hatton and the Rev. M. Harvey, Boston, 1883, p. 169. See also Mr. 
Lloyd’ eyed, Jo of the Aisopos Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 
? Collections of 
of the Maine Hist. Soc., vit, pp. 339-349. 1876. Communicated 
I 16, 1862. 
