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INDEX. 



BEA 



Bears — continued 



— a bear's skull stuck on a dead 

 branch, i. 183 



— Indian superstition respecting it, i. 

 1S3 



— anecdote of a bear, i. 1 83 



— dogs scenting bears in the ■winter, 

 i. 184 



— bear hunts, i. 184 



— ferocity of the bear, i. 184, 185 



— singular custom of the Montagnais 

 when a bear was brought into camp, 

 ii. 15 



Beaver, tracks of, on the banks of the 

 Moisie, i. 70 



— their habits, as described by an 

 Indian hunter, i. 7 1 



— small value set upon their skins, i. 

 71 



— Indian mode of sounding for beaver, 

 i. 71 



— a beaver meadow near Cold Water 

 River Portage, i. 117, 118 



— beaver-meadows and beaver-houses 

 at Level Portage, i. 130 



— tracks of beaver near Lake Nipisis, 

 i. 202, 212 



— Beaver skins, trade of the Abena- 

 kis Indians with the Algonquios in, 

 i. 5, note 



Be^ancour, in Canada, the Abenakis 



Indians of, i. 5, note 

 Belle Isle, Straits of, current at the, ii. 



59 



— passage of the Arctic current 

 through the, ii. 60 



— importance of ice signals at the 

 lighthouse on, ii. 61 



Belrga Borealis, or white whale, ii. 90 

 Bersamits River, i. 7 ; ii. 43 



— effects of an earthquake on the 

 waters of the, i. 255 



Bic Island, ii. 55 



Birch trees on the shores of Moisie 

 Bay, i. 1 6 



— of the Moisie river, i. 23 



— of the valley of the Moisie, i. 46 



— large size of the birch at the second 

 gorge of the Moisie, i 104 



— magnificent birch trees near the 

 Nipisis Lake, i. 218 



— birch buds eaten by the Indians in 

 times of scarcity, i. 242 



— size of the canoe birch at the Top 

 of the Ridge Lake, i. 151 



— white and yellow, of the island of 

 Anticosti. ii. 73 



— birch-bark canoes, ii. 122 



BRA 



Birch — Continued 



— lodges of the Nasquapees, ii. 106 

 Bird Rocks, ii. 59, 67 



— abundance of gannets on the, ii. 67 



— dangers to navigation of the, ii. 68 

 Birds in Moisie Bay, i. 16 



— wild-fowl destroyed in the burning 

 forests, i. 209 



— the saw-bill duck, i. 137 

 Blackflies on the shores of the Lake 



where the Sand lies, i. 129 



— torment of, i. 139 



— a voyageur's legend as to their 

 creation, i, 140 



Blanc Sablon Bay, abundance of the 

 cod fish at, i. 300 



— the eastern boundary of Canada, 

 i. 9 



Blindness, an Indian afflicted with, 

 i. 199 



— cause of his misfortune, i. 199 

 Blindness, night. See Night-blindness 

 Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), 



usid by the Indians as a medicine, 



i. 191, note 

 Blue-berries, fondness of the bear for, 



i. 184 

 Bones of animals, Indian superstitions 



respecting the, i. 185 



— the Indian game of, i. 277 

 Bouchette, Joseph, his ignorance of the 



existence of the Moisie river, i. 11. 

 Boulders of the rapids of the river 

 Moisie, i. 29 



— colossal erratics of the valleys, hill- 

 sides, and mountain tops of the 

 Labrador Peninsula, i. 31, 32 



— symmetrically arranged boulders 

 near the Grand Portage, i. 43 



— in the bed of the Moisie at the 

 second gorge, i. 106 



— on the shores of Lake Nepisis, i. 194 

 — ■ on the uppermost edge of gneiss 



terraces, i. 133 



— in the bed of the Nipisis river, i. 209 



— of the Burnt Portage, i. 222 



— covered with moss, i. 223 



— tiers of bare boulders in the Burnt 

 Country, i. 225 



— immense numbers of erratics in the 

 country near Caribou Lake, i. 235 



Boule Island, Great, height of the, ii. 30 

 Bows and arrows of the Nasquapees, 



i. 292; ii. 106 

 Bradore Bay, abundance of cod-fish at, 



i. 300 



— discovery of the bay, ii. 126 



— town of Brest in, ii. 127 



