Beothuk and Micmac . INTERIOR OF WIGWAM OF CAPE BRETON MICMAC, SHOWINGSIZE AND PLACING OF POLES _. <h- 73 -1 w U Q-5 -^ <i c XI- * 3 0 ^0 ^co -a ^^ NEWFOUNDLAND of jSIicmac expansion and Beothuk decline,covering about 200 years, up to the presenttime. The Newfoundland Indians, numberingabout 300 by estimate, are known both tothemselves and to the people of the main-land (Cape Breton) as Taya^nkuyewa x,^^people of the land across the water, theisland itself being known as Montagnais proper call the JMicmacA isimcuts, evil people. According to thetradition current among the Ne
Beothuk and Micmac . INTERIOR OF WIGWAM OF CAPE BRETON MICMAC, SHOWINGSIZE AND PLACING OF POLES _. <h- 73 -1 w U Q-5 -^ <i c XI- * 3 0 ^0 ^co -a ^^ NEWFOUNDLAND of jSIicmac expansion and Beothuk decline,covering about 200 years, up to the presenttime. The Newfoundland Indians, numberingabout 300 by estimate, are known both tothemselves and to the people of the main-land (Cape Breton) as Taya^nkuyewa x,^^people of the land across the water, theisland itself being known as Montagnais proper call the JMicmacA isimcuts, evil people. According to thetradition current among the NewfoundlandIndians, the Micmac of the mainland hadalways some knowledge of the island throughtheir own excursions by canoe. The routelay between Cape North (of Cape Breton)and Cape Ray on the southwestern coast ofNewfoundland, a distance of sixty-five miles,land being dimly visible in fine bold journey was ordinarily accom-plished in two days, they say. On the firstdaj or night, if the weather favored, thevoyagers made
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