the beothucks or red indians the arboriginals inhabitants of newfoundland

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Contents

Cabots Voyages
1
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
7
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
14
Notes from Various Sources between the date of Whitbournes Book 1622 and John Cartwrights
22
Proclamation issued by His Excellency Capt the Hon John Byron in 1769
29
Parliamentary Papers
49
Letter of Mr John Bland addressed to Governors Secretary
56
NINETEENTH CENTURY
62
Extracts from the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal Dec 1827
187
Letters of W E Cormack Esq addressed to John Stark Esq Secretary of the Beothuck
197
Sixth Letter
203
Manuscript of W E Cormacks apparently written after his last expedition in search of
210
Letter to French Commandant
218
Notes relative to the Red Indians from the Records of the Beothuck Institution Loose papers
229
Death of W E Cormack
234
Theories as to the origin of the Beothucks
251

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Contents
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Extract of a letter from St Johns dated Aug 1 1811
104
Resolutions of a Town Meeting respecting the Indians
108
Colonial Correspondence
119
Further characteristics of Mary March Waunathoake
127
Depart from the sea coast
135
Continue the journey into the western interior
147
General features of the Western Interior
155
Capture of three Beothuck women
169
Extract of a disputation from R A Tucker Esq Administering to the Government of New
174
Substance of Mr Curtiss Story
179
Physical Features of the Beothucks
257
Report of Bureau of Ethnology U S 18823
263
Inspector Grimes stories
273
Rev Silas T Rands story
284
Reconstructed Red Indian Grave Hangmans Island Placentia Bay
292
First Paper by Albert S Gatschet read before the American Philosophical Society June 19th
302
Notes on the Red Indians from A Journal of transactions and events during a residence
314
Third Paper by Albert S Gatschet Read before the American Philosophical Society Jan
317
Lloyds description of the implements he found
323
Finding of Beothuck Skeletons
330
Implements and Ornaments of the Beothucks
336
Concluding remarks on the Red Indians
342

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