. Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development . ul race, well developed physically,of quick intelligence, tractable, and not indisposed to friendlyintercourse with the pale faces. They had lived for unknownages unmolested, hunting and fishing. With countless herds ofthe finest deer, vast flocks of ptarmigan, ponds abundantlystocked with beaver and trout, rivers swarming with salmon,wild ducks and geese in spring and summer, the island musthave been a paradise to these red men who revelled in savageabundance. But as in all similar cases the coming o
. Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century : a treatise of history and development . ul race, well developed physically,of quick intelligence, tractable, and not indisposed to friendlyintercourse with the pale faces. They had lived for unknownages unmolested, hunting and fishing. With countless herds ofthe finest deer, vast flocks of ptarmigan, ponds abundantlystocked with beaver and trout, rivers swarming with salmon,wild ducks and geese in spring and summer, the island musthave been a paradise to these red men who revelled in savageabundance. But as in all similar cases the coming of the white men 162 NEWFOUNDLAND. sealed their doom. For 300 years afterwards they continuedto exist, but were gradually becoming fewer and weaker. Indespair, the forlorn band that remained retreated to their lastrefuge at Red Indian Lake; and here they died, one by one,till not a living representative remained of a once vigorous andwarlike race. There are few darker chapters in the history of the whitemans progress in the New World than that which records thefate of the unhappy CHAPTER XX. LABRADOR. As a large portion of Labrador is under the jurisdiction ofNewfoundland, and as some 20,000 of Newfoundland fishermenresort each year to its coasts for fishing purposes, and one-fourth of all the fish exported from the island is taken on thatcoast, a brief account of it is desirable. This great peninsula lies between the Gulf of St. Lawrence,Hudsons Bay and Straits, and the North Atlantic. The coastline on the Atlantic, from the Straits of Belle Isle to CapeChidleigh, is 1,100 miles in length; its greatest breadth is 600miles, and its area 420,000 square miles, being equal to thearea of the British Isles, France and Austria combined. Theeastern coast, from Blanc Sablon to Cape Chidleigh, belongs toNewfoundland; the rest to Canada; but the boundary betweentheir respective portions has not yet been defined. The climate is rigorous in the extreme. The snow liesfrom Septembe
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