CONTENTS OF 

 CHAPTER XIII. 



LAKE NIPISIS TO BEAR LAKE. 



Nasquapee Camp Copper Fish-hook A Cache Caribou Horns 



Nipisis River Fresh Tracks A Fire on the Portage Narrow 



Escape of the Canoes Destructiveness of Fires in the Woods 

 Desolation of part of the Labrador Peninsula produced by them 

 Magnificent Spectacle of a Spruce Forest on Fire at Night Wild- 

 fowl falling into the Flames Nipisis River Sketching under Diffi- 

 culties The Snow-white Rock The early Morn in Labrador 

 Silence Ducks A Bear Caribou Beaver smell the Fire 

 Importance of the Caribou Its Habits . . PAGE 201 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 THE SNOW-WHITE ROCK TO CARIBOU LAKE. 



Trip to the Snow-white Rock Pine Forest Character of the Snow- 

 Avhite Rock Young Forest Beauty of the Scenery towards the 



East Awful Desolation of the Country towards the North and 



West Character of the Scene A burnt Country The burnt 

 Portage The River at the Beginning of the burnt Country 



Moss-covered Boulders Treacherous Walking Difference 



between the Country in the Valley of the Saskatchewan and Table 

 Land of Labrador A Walk through the burnt Woods Tiers 

 of Boiilders Infinite Number of Erratics Desolate Character of 

 the River Shallows River becoming impassable Caribou 

 Lake River impassable beyond Caribou Lake Remarkable 

 Erratics ' Desolation desolate ' Caribou Moss Its Uses and 

 Beauty Lichens of Labrador Their general Diffusion . 219 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE BURNT COUNTRY AND THE TABLE LAND. 



An Excursion on Foot Aspect of the Country Elevation Scenery 



The Dividing Ridge The Burnt Country Numerous Lakes 



Boulders Absence of Animal Life --Ruin everywhere Reflec- 

 tions Life in the Desert - - The Montagiiais and the Nasquapees 

 Bear-feasts Caribou Feasts -- Winter Life Michel and his 

 Cousins' Caribou Hunt His Affray with Wolves Starvation in 



