180 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. CHAP. xii. 



CHAPTER XII. 



TROUT LAKE TO LAKE NIPISIS. 



Trout Lake The 'Outlook' Magnificent Scenery Beauty of 

 the Lichens A Herd of Caribou Too late Bear Skull 



Anecdote of a Bear Dogs scenting a Bear in the Winter 

 Bear Hunts Ferocity of these Animals Montagnais Supersti- 

 tions Bones of Porcupine Bones and Blood of Bears Mosquito 

 Lake A Labrador Trout Stream Anibro and Ambrosis 

 Michel sick The Hospital in the Wood Indian Medicines 

 Dreams and Visions Causes of Disease amongst Indians Wolves 



Ferocity of Wolves A Storm on Lake Nipisis Wind- 

 bound Vegetation on Lake Nipisis Manicouagan Lake 

 The Fire Mountain of the Nasquapees Pere Arnaud Journey 

 up the Manicouagan Nasquapee sick Lamentable Incident 

 among the Tete de Boule Indians Pere Arnaud's Difficulties 



Winter Life in the Woods of the Labrador Peninsula The 

 Ptarmigan The Return of the Priest. 



' nHHIS is the lake where we separated from the four other 

 canoes,' said Michel to Louis, as we stood on the 

 summit of a bare mound of gneiss, 330 feet above Trout 

 Lake and commanding a magnificent view. 'There is 

 Atachikamishish, or Cold-water Eiver, it rises in Mata- 

 megosekatats, or Trout Lake, below us. At the other end 

 of that lake, where we go to-morrow, is a little stream full 

 of trout ; it leads to Lake Nipisis, where there is also 

 plenty of trout and ko-ko-mesh (a variety of salmon* 

 trout). The east branch of the Moisie flows through Lake 

 Nipisis, and goes past those mountains away round that 

 high peak ; we go up Lake Nipisis, then up a river 



