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Show 58 INDIAN LINGUISTIC FAMILIES. satisfactory deductions, yet so far as it goes it shows that the language is quite distinct from any of the Algonquian dialects, and in fact from any other American tongue. GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. It seems highly probable that the whole of Newfoundland at the time of its discovery by Cabot in 1497 was inhabited by Beothuk Indians. In 1534 Cartier met with Indians inhabiting the southeastern part of the island, who, very likely, were of this people, though the description is too vague to permit certain identification. A century later the southern portion of the island appears to have been abandoned by these Indians, whoever they were, on account of European settlements, and only the northern and eastern parts of the island were occupied by them. About the beginning of the eighteenth century western Newfoundland was colonized by the Micmac from Nova Scotia. As a consequence of the persistent warfare which followed the advent of the latter and which was also waged against the Beothuk by the Europeans, especially the French, the Beothuk rapidly wasted in numbers. Their main territory was soon confined to the neighborhood of the Exploits River. The tribe was finally lost sight of about 1827, having become extinct, or possibly the few survivors having crossed to the Labrador coast and joined the Nas-capi with whom the tribe had always been on friendly terms. Upon the map only the small portion of the island is given to the Beothuk which is known definitely to have been occupied by them, viz., the neighborhood of the Exploits River, though, as stated above, it seems probable that the entire island was once in their possession. CADDOAN FAMILY. > Caddoes, Gallatin in Trans, and Coll. Am. Antiq. Soc., n, 116, 806, 1836 ( based on Caddoes alone). Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v, 406,1847. Gallatin in Schoolcraft, Ind. Tribes, in, 402,1858 [ gives as languages Caddo, Red River, ( Nanda-koes, Tachies, Nabedaches)]. > Caddokies, Gallatin in Trans, and Coll. Am. Antiq. Soc., n, 116,1836 ( same as his Caddoes). Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v, 406, 1847. > Caddo, Latham in Trans. Philolog. Soc. Lond., n, 81- 50,1846 ( indicates affinities with Iroquois, Muskoge, Catawba, Pawnee). Gallatin in Trans. Am. Eth. Soc., n, pt. 1, xcix, 77, 1848, ( Caddo only). Berghaus ( 1845), Physik. Atlas, map 17, 1848 ( Caddos, etc.). Ibid., 1852. Latham, Nat. Hist. Man, 338,1850 ( between the Mississippi and Sabine). Latham in Trans. Philolog. Soc., Lond., 101, 1856. Turner in Pac. R. R. Rep., m, pt. 8, 55, 70,1856 ( finds resemblances to Pawnee but keeps them separate). Buschmann, Spuren der aztek. Sprache, 426,448,1859. Latham, Opuscula, 290, 366, 1860. > Caddo, Latham, Elements Comp. Phil., 470, 1862 ( includes Pawni and Riccari). > Pawnees, Gallatin in Trans, and Coll. Am. Antiq. Soc., n, 128, 306, 1886 ( two nations: Pawnees proper and Ricaras or Black Pawnees). Prichard, Phys. Hist. Mankind, v, 408, 1847 ( follows Gallatin). Gallatin in Trans. Am. Eth. Soc., |