title: The truth about the Pilgrims
author:  Francis R Stoddard 
description: Includes a number of illustrations, references, notes on illustrations and an index; seminal work for anyone wanting to study the pilgrims in depth.
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  ## REPORT _of Mr W. E. CORMACK'S Journey  
  in search of the Red Indians in Newfoundland_ .
  
  ### Read before the Boeothick Institution  
  at St John's, Newfoundland.
  
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  _From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal_ .
  
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  ** P URSUANT ** to special summons, a meeting of this Institution was held at
  St John's on the 12th day of January 1828; the Honourable A.W. Desbarres,
  Vice-Patron, in the chair. The Honourable Chairman stated, that the primary
  motive which led to the formation of the Institution, was the desire of
  opening a communication with, and promoting the civilization of, the Red
  Indians of Newfoundland; and of procuring, if possible, an authentic history
  of that unhappy race of people, in order that their language, customs and
  pursuits, might be contrasted with those of other tribes of Indians and
  nations;—that, in following up the chief object of the institution, it was
  anticipated that much information would be obtained respecting the natural
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