Delivered at the Mechanics’ Institute in St. John’s in January 1859 by the colony’s Surveyor-General, this lecture weighs the theories of where the native peoples of North America came from before turning to the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Noad draws on earlier expeditions in search of them, including a winter journey through the snowbound interior.
A rare and poignant record of a people already gone by the time it was written. Download the free EPUB.