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Anderson's River rises near Bear Lake, drains the country 

 between the Mackenzie and the Coppermine River, and falls 

 into the Arctic Sea. The country is rich in fur-bearing animals, 

 and before the expedition of Macfarlane in 1857 it was wholly 

 imkuown. The upper part is hunted partially by the Hare and 

 Loucheux Indians, the lower by the Anderson's River Esqui- 

 maux. Ross River is an important affluent of Anderson's River, 

 so also is the Lockhart. The Loucheux Indians, called the 

 Batard Loucheux of the Esid of the Anderson, form lodges of 

 turf on poles. 



The Anderson's River Esquimaux differ from the Western 

 Esquimaux of Mackenzie River ; they are friendly with Batard 

 I^oucheux, and hunt on tlie banks of the river for reindeer. 

 The coats of some of the Esquimaux met on the lower part of 

 Anderson's River were made of the skin of the Rocky Mountain 

 goat, which Mr. Macfarlane first supposed they had procured 

 from the Western Esquimaux ; but the people, who were in 

 great number, turned out to be Western Esquimaux, and were 

 very fierce, and after some short time stopped the canoes of the 

 expedition, which Mr. Macftirlane was compelled to abandon, 

 not without endangering the lives of the Hare Indians with him, 

 who were the first to abandon the canoes. Some of the Es([ui- 

 maux were recognised as trading at Red River Post. Some of 

 the Western Esquimaux and the Anderson's River Esquimaux 

 pass the winter together. 



The zoology of Anderson's River, with the affluent Ross River, 

 comprises moose and reindeer, black bears, otters, wolves, 

 wolverines, siffleux beaver, musquash, martens, musks, squirrels, 

 rabbits, and foxes, also frogs and mice. Birds — Canada, laugh- 

 ing, snow, and Esquimaux geese, stork-king, teal, and long-tailed 

 ducks, divers, loons, swans, hawks, owls, swallows, gulls, plovers, 

 robins, snow-buntings, willow grouse, and ptarmigan. 



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