INDEX 



ABENAKIS, or Abenqtiois, Indians, 

 i. 5, 7)ote 



— their villages in Canada, i. 5, 7iote 



— population of the tribe, i. 5, note 



— former extent of their hunting 

 grounds, i. 5, 7iote 



— meaning of the name, i. 5, 7iote 



— their loyalty during the first Ameri- 

 can War, i. 5, 7iote 



— their former trade with the Algon- 

 quins, i. 5, 7iote 



Abies baisami, or Canada balsam, use 



of the, in frost-bites, i. 189 

 Acadia, origin of the name, li. 44 

 Acadian settlers at Natashquan, ii. 131 



— village at Esquimaux Point, ii. 151 



— and at Natashquan, ii. 153 

 Agriculture in the island of Anticosti, 



ii. 74 

 Albanel, Pere, his journey from the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence to Hudson's 

 Bay, ii. 22 



— and across the neck of the Labrador 

 Peninsula, ii. 147 



Alcedo alcyon, or Kingfisher, on the 



Sixth Lake, i. 173 

 Algonquin Indians, their beaver trade, 



i. 5, Tiote 



— slaughter of the, on the St. Maurice 

 river, i. 273 



— and on the Vermillion river, i 273 



— settlement of Hochelaga, ii. 2 



• — attempts of the Jesuits to induce 

 them to return to the island of Mon- 

 treal, ii. 4 



- — skeletons and relics disinterred at 

 Montreal, ii. 5 



— history of the Algonquins, ii. 6 



— return of the Algonquins of the St. 

 Lawrence valley to a nomadic life. 



Amalicite Indians of Canada, strength 

 of the tribe of, i. 6, 7iute 



— their dwelling-place, i. 6, 7iote 



— their principal settlements in New 

 Brunswick, i. 6, 7iote 



Ambro and Ambro-sis, i. 188 



' American cotton ' tents in rainy wea- 

 ther, i. 37 



Ammonia, value of the phosphate of, 

 i. 313, 7wle 



Anchor ice, ii. 209 



— Mr. Keefer's notes on anchor ice, 

 ii. 209-211, note 



Anderson, Mr., of Mingan, his journal 

 referred to, i. 339 



— his kindness, ii. 95 

 Animals of Labrador : — 



caribou, or reindeer, i. 8, 213 



fur-bearing animals, i. 8 



none seen in the woods on the 



Moisie at the Grand Portage, i. 36 

 nor on the gneiss hills, i. 42 

 causes of scarcity of game in the 



valley of the Moisie, i. 8i 

 seals in the Moisie, i. 96 

 animal life at the first falls of the 



river Moisie, i. 98 

 moose, i. 121 

 absence of animal life at the Lake 



where the Sand lies, i. 127 

 saw-bill ducks, i. 137 

 mosquitoes and black flies, i. 139, 



187 

 trout in immense numbers in the 



rapids of Cold Water River, i. 142 

 otters on the Sixth Lake, i. 172 

 kingfishers on the Sixth Lake, i. 173 

 bears, i. 183,211 

 dogs and bear-hunting, i. 184 

 porcupines, i. 185 

 trout in a small stream, i. 186 



