MR cormack's expedition. 275 that Newfoundland has been in the possession of Europeans. But it is to be lamented, that now, when we have taken up the cause of a barbarously- treated people, so few should remain to reap the benefit of our plans for their civilisation. The insti¬ tution and its supporters will agree with me, that after the unfortunate circumstances attending past encounters between the Europeans and the Red Indians, it is best now to employ Indians belonging to the other tribes, to be the medium of beginning the intercourse we have in view ; and, indeed, I have already chosen three of the most intelligent men, from among the others met with in Newfoundland , to follow up my search. " I have the pleasure to present to the Bceothic Institution several ingenious articles, the manufac¬ ture of the Boeothics ; some of which we had the good fortune to discover on our recent excursion, models of their canoes, bows and arrows, spears of different kinds, &c, and also a complete dress worn by that people. Their mode of kindling fire is not only original, but, as far as we at present know, is peculiar to their tribe. These articles, together with a short vocabulary of their language, consisting of from 200 to 300 words, which I have been enabled to collect, prove the Boeothics to be a distinct tribe from any hitherto discovered in . One remarkable characteristic of their language, and in which it resembles those of more than any other Indian languages do, with which we have had an opportunity of comparing it, is its abounding in