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CHAP. VI. 



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Rook by the River's Side. Shale Formation. Fort Nor- 

 man. Tertiary Coal Formation. Lignite Beds. Fossil 

 Leaves. Edible Clay. Spontaneous Combustion of the 

 River Bank. Hill at Bear Lake River. Hill at the 

 Rapid on that River. Forest. Plants. Birds - - 181 



CHAP. VII. 



Peregrine Falcon. The Rapid. Ramparts. Hare Indians. 

 Fort Good Hope. Hares. Kutchin. Their Contests 

 with the Eskimos. A Fatal Dance. A Hare Indian 

 devoured by a Brown Bear. Vegetation. Narrows. 

 Richardson Chain of Hills. Fort Separation. Cache 

 of Pemican and Memorandum. Alluvial Delta. Yukon 

 River. Rein-Deer Hills. M'Gillivray Island. Harri- 

 son Island. Termination of the Forest. Sacred Island. 

 Richard's Island. Point Encounter - - - 205 



CHAP. VIIL 



Enter the Estuary of the Mackenzie. Interview Avith 

 the Eskimos. Remarks on that People. Winter-Houses 

 near Point Warren. Copland Hutchison Bay. Flat 

 Coast with Hummocks. Level Boggy Land. Mirage. 

 A Party of Eskimos visit us. Point Atkinson. Kashim. 

 Old Woman. Old Man. Young Men. Cape Brown. 

 Eskimos. Russell Inlet. Cape Dalhousie. Sabine 

 Xema. Liverpool Bay. Nicholson Island. Frozen 

 CliiFs of Cape Maitland. Rock Ptarmigan. Eskimo 

 Tents. Harrowby Bay. Baillie's Islands. River of 

 the Toothless Fish or Beghula Tesse. Eskimo of Cape 

 Bathurst. Their Summer and its Occupations. Shale 

 Formation of the Sea-Coast - . - _ 236 



