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Ashwanipl River — conlinued 



— Father Laure's map of it, i. 34 



— vegetation of the valley of the 

 Moisie at the Grand Portage, i. 36 



— its width at various places, ii. 136 



— the great falls, ii. 136 



— description of the river below Fort 

 Nasquapee, ii. 137 



— and of the valley a hundred miles 

 from Hamilton Inlet, ii. 139 



Assikinack, Francis, an Odahwah 

 warrior, account of him, i, 61, nute 



— his ' Legends and Traditions of the 

 Odahwah Indians,' 1. 61, nute 



— his description of the mode of bring- 

 ing up children among the Odahwah 

 Indians of Lake Huron, i. 177, note 



Assomption, a name of Anticosti, ii. 69 

 Assuapmushan, foundation of the mis- 

 sion of, ii. 26 

 A-ta-chi-ka-mi-shish, or Cold Water 

 River, i. 34, 112, 139 



— its series of cascades, i. 139, 166 



— great numbers of trout in, i. 142 

 Atik-min, or caribou-food, i. 214 

 Atshem, the evil deity of the Nasqua- 



pees, ii. 102 

 Auks, red- billed, on the Bird Rocks, 



ii. 68 

 Aurora borealis, Indian superstition 



respecting the, i. 283 



BABEL, Pere, his description of a 

 Roman Catholic missionary sta- 

 tion, ii. 178 

 Baddeley, Captain, liis statement re- 

 specting earthquakes in Labrador, i. 

 257 



— his description of the basaltic 

 columns in Henley Harbour, ii. 145 



Bailloquet, Pere Pierre, his visit to 

 various tribes of Indians, ii. 20 



Bake-apple, the, of the Ungava dis- 

 trict, ii. 145 



Balsam, spruce, its healing value, i. 

 109 



— resinous matter of the, i. 165 



— one on fire, i. 165 



— an excellent remedy for frost-bites, 

 i. 189 



— balsam fir of the island of Anti- 

 costi, ii. 73 



Barley grown on Anticosti, ii. 75 

 Bartelmi, meeting with, at Seven 



Islands, i. 321 

 Basaltic columns of Henley Harbour, 



ii. 145 



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Bath, the vapour, a common remedy 



among all Indians, i. 189 

 — - of the Indian conjurors, ii. 14 

 Battle Harbour, the English church at, 



ii. 195 

 Bay, Blanc Sablon, i. 300 



Bradore, i. 300 



of Chaleurs, i. 329 ; ii. 56, 67 



Ellis or Gamache, ii. 73, 76 



Forteau, ii. 195 



Fox, ii. 76 



Gamache, ii. 73, 76 



its naval importance, ii. 81 



Gaspe, ii. 55, 57, 90 



Hudson's, ii. 91 



Magpie, i. 300 ; ii. 89 



Mai, ii. 59, 67 



Moisie, i. 16, 296 



Mutton, i. 300 



Pleasant, i. 329 



Red, ii. 197 



Salmon, i. 300 



of Seven Islands, i. 9 ; ii. 27 et 

 seq. 



of Sr. Augustine, ii. 135 



St. Paul's, ii. 130 



of Tabatiere, sterile character of the 

 coast of the, ii. 136 



Ungava, ii. 91, 188 

 Bayfield, Admiral, his surveys of the 



coast of Labrador, i. 9 



— his remarks on the disturbance of 

 the compass in the Gulf and river of 

 St. Lawrence, ii. 46 



— on the utility of the barometer in 

 the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 ii. 57 



— on the currents of the Gulf, ii. 58 



— his observations on the temperature 

 of the air and water of the estuary of 

 the St. Lawrence, ii. 63, note 



— liis suggestions as to the cause of 

 fogs in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and 

 on the banks of Newfoundland, ii. 

 64 



— his description of the Atlantic 

 swell on the coast of Labrador, ii. 

 185 



Beads, porcelain ''wampum), the trade 



of tlie Abenakis Indians in, i. 5, 



note 

 Bear-food, or mask-i-min, the berry so 



called, i. 184, 189 

 Bear Lake, view of, i. 213 

 Beard moss, i. 232 

 Bears, tracks of, on the banlis of the 



Moisie, i. 72, 76 



— a bear- path, i. 76 



