The French, when they occupied the south coast of Newfoundland, brought over Mikmak Indians to chase and kill the Beothiks or "Red" Indians.

The Eskimo attacked them from Labrador.

Finally, when Newfoundland became British in the eighteenth century, the English fishermen settlers and fur hunters attacked and slew the harmless Beothiks with a wanton ferocity (described by horror-struck officers of the British navy) which is as bad as anything attributed to the Spaniards in Cuba and Hispaniola.

By about 1830 they were all extinct.

As late as 1823 the following anecdote is recorded of two English settlers whose names are hidden behind the initials C and A."When near Badger Bay they fell in with an Indian man and woman, who approached, apparently soliciting food.