INDEX. 



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BRA 



Bradorc Hills, the, ii. 183 



Brandy Pots, the, ii. 55 



Breakfast, cooking, iu the woods, i. 164 



— an Indian's breakfast, i. IGo 

 Brent geese {Anser bernichi), on the 



coast of Labrador, i. 16, 17 



— their habits, i. 17, 7iote 



Brest, town of, in Bradore Bay, ii. 127 



— its former importance, ii. 127 



■ — its present ruinous condition, ii. 127 

 • — causes of its decay, ii. 127 

 Breton, Cape, ii. 66 

 ■ — former importance of, to the French, 

 ii. 216 



— the Gut of Canso, ii. 218 

 Breton Island, ii. 66 



Brockville, Indian relics found near, 



ii. 8 

 Bruce, Mr. Duncan, his manufacture of 



fish manure combined with calcined 



shale, i. 311 



— analysis of two specimens of manure 

 made from the menhadden, i. 313 



Brulots, torment of, i. 140 



— legend respecting it, i. 140 

 Brunswick, New, the Anialicite In- 

 dians of, i. 6, note 



— the Micmacs of, i. 6, 7iofe 



— coal field of, ii. 82 

 Buchan Falls, ii. 40 

 Burial-places of the Indians, ii. 8 



— of the Labradorians, ii. 165 

 Burial rites of the Montagnais, Nasqua- 



pees, and Swampy Crees, i. 170-172 

 Burnt Country, in the valley of Cold 



"Water River, i. 145, 221 

 • — a walk to the Burnt Country, i. 225 



— tiers of bare boulders, i. 225 



— oases in the desert, i. 226 



— remaikable disposition of erratics 

 near Caribou Lake, i. 229 



Burnt Portage, or Kes-ca-po-swe-ta- 



gan, i. 222 

 Byron Island, ii. 69 



CABOT, Jean and Sebastian, their 

 discovery of Newfoundland, ii. 126 

 Cache, Indian mode of forming a, to 

 protect furs from the carcajoii, i. 50 



— a cache of tobacco, i. 1 1 6 



— a cache made by the Nasquapee 

 Indians, i. 201 



Camp, an Indian, in the winter, in the 



interior of Labrador, i. 246 

 Canada balsam. See Balsam, Canada 

 Canada, ' Dark Day s ' of, probable causes 

 of the, i. 251, 262 



VOL. II. 



CAP 



Canada — continued 



— the Dark Days of 1786, i. 254 



— Chief Justice Sewell's account, i. 251 



— accounts of those of 1814, i. 252 



— attributed by the Chief Justice to 

 volcanic action, i. 254 



— eastern limit of, as settled by Act 

 of Parliament, i. 9; ii. 130 



— grouse, Indian mode of snaring the, 

 i. 174 



— Mr. Bell's description quoted, i. 174 



— Mr. Mallet's list of earthquakes 

 which have occurred in, i. 259 



— remarks of the Hon. W. H. Seward 

 on the future of, ii. 252 



— Upper, famine during the early his- 

 tory of, i. 85 



' Canadian,' loss of the, ii. 61 



Caniapuscaw, Lake, and the country 

 around, ii. 142 



Cauis occidentalis, (gray or strong- 

 wood wolf), eifects of strychnine on 

 the, i. 27 



Cannibalism of the inhabitants of the 

 north-eastern portion of the Labra- 

 dor Peninsula, i. 16 



— instances of the occurrence of 

 amongst the Nasquapee Indians, ii. 

 244 



Canoe, landing through the surf iu a, 

 ii. 93 



— canoes best adapted for the explora- 

 tion of Labrador, i. 1 



— their size, weight, and capacity, i. 2 



— canoes adapted to the rivers of La- 

 brador, i. 6 



— leaky canoes, i. 18 



— Louis's mode of treating a leaky one, 

 i. 19 



— an accident to a canoe at the 

 second gorge of the Moisie, i. 105 



— their astonishing strength in ascend- 

 ing a rapid river, i. 107 



— a canoe race on the Lake where the 

 Sand lies, i. 128 



— building Indian canoes — squaws 

 stitching ihe birch-bark, ii. 122 



Canso, Gut of, ii. 67, 218 

 Cape Breton, ii. 66, 216 



— Chat, ii. 57 



— Chudleigh, ii. 143 



— Despair, ii. 81 



— Eagle, ii. 76 



— Henry, ii. 76 



— Mecatina, ii. 183 



— Porcupine, ii. 218 



— Ray, ii. 58,59- 



— Rosier, ii, 49 



