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THE ZENO NARRATIVE 123 known to have been executed by the Beothuks 17 of Newfoundland in their later and feebler, though not quite their latest days such as extensive deer fences, to give their hunters the utmost benefit from the annual migrations. Granted a certain infusion of Norse blood, or even without it, there is perhaps nothing stated of the Escocilanders which may not have been true. As to the name, it is no more strange than Nova Scotia, which still occu- pies the coast just to the south, and it may have been applied in the same spirit. Very early in the history of European colonization this Mark- land which by its outjutting position was accused of being a New-found-land, again and again with varying designations during the ill-recorded centuries took under the latter name the position, which it still holds, of the very earliest of the English colonies of the New World. 17 George Cartwright: Journal of Transactions and Events During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador, 3 vols., Newark (Engl.), 1792. Republished as "Captain Cartwright and His Labrador Journal," with an introduc- tion by W. T. Grenfell, Boston. 1911; reference on pp. 16-25.