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INDEX. 



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Cold Water River — continued 



— the burnt track of country in the 

 valley of, i. 146 



— magnificent mountains through 

 M-hich the river has forced a passage, 

 i. 160 



— lake in which it takes its rise, i. 175 



— falls of the river in a course of 

 twenty miles, i. 175 



— lakes of Cold Water River as seen 

 from the Trout Lake, i. 181 



— Louis' accident at, i. 279 



Cold Water River portage on the 



Moisie, i. Ill 

 Comets, Indian superstitions respecting, 



i. 288 

 Commetique, or dog-sledge, of Labrador, 



ii. 157, 158 

 Commission, Canadian, to inquire into 



the condition of the Indians, ii. 117 

 Compass, an Indian's superstitious awe 



of a, i. 269. 270 



— the Nasquapee and the compass, i. 

 346 



■ — causes of the disturbance of the 

 compass in the Gulf and river of St. 

 Lawrence, ii. 46 

 • — and at the Mlngan Islands, ii. 48 

 Conjurors, vapour-baths of the, ii. 14 



— outrages of the Crees and Mustegans 

 induced by the conjurors, ii. 16 



— aversion of the Oumamiwek to con- 

 jurors, ii. 22 



— conjurors of the Nasquapees, ii. 102 

 Conjuror's Falls, ii 43 



Cooking in the woods, i. 164 



— difficulties of, i. 165 



— Indian mode of cooking meat, ii. IS 

 Cornus alba, vel stolonifera, used as a 



purgative by the Indians, i. 189 

 Cortereal, Gaspar de, his discoveries, ii. 

 108 



— said to have discovered Labrador, 

 ii. 126 



Coudres, Isle au, white whales off the, 



ii. 90 

 Courtmanches, Count de, and the French 



settlements in Labrador, ii. 128, 129 

 Cow, a, stalked by a Nasquapee, i. 293 

 Cranberry, the \\\^^\i (^Vihenmm opulus), 



abundance of, on Anticosti, ii. 73 



— the low cranberry, ii. 74 



Cree Indians, similarity of their lan- 

 guage to that of the Montagnais, i. 

 33 



— resemblance between their dialect 

 and that of the Montagnais Indians, 

 i. 33 



DOG 



Cree Indians - coni'mued 

 ■ — their universal remedy for sickness, 

 i. 34 



— their fondness for gambling, i. 283 



— extent of country occupied by them, 

 ii. 10 



— and of their hunting-grounds, ii. 

 110 



— the Swampy — 



— their burial rites, i. 170 



— their outrages against the whites, 

 induced by their conjurors, ii. 16 



Currants, red and black, abundance of, 



on Anticosti, ii. 74 

 Currents at the entrance of the Gulf of 



St. Lawrence, ii. 58 



— main cm-rent of the St. Lawrence, 

 ii. 59 



— passage by which the Arctic current 

 finds its way in the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, ii. 60 



DABLON, Pore Claude, helps to 

 found the Sangenay mission, ii. 25 

 Dance, an Indian war, in the 17th 



century, ii. 9 

 Darling, Dr., his report on the causes 



of disease among the Indians, i. 191 

 Datura stramonium used by the Indians 



as a medicine, i. 191, note 

 Davies, Mr. W. H. A., his knowledge 



of the existence of the river Ash- 



wanipi, i. 12 



— his description of it quoted, i. 13 



— his description of a great fire acci- 

 dentally caused by him, i. 206 



Delaware Indians, their tradition re- 

 specting the wars of their ancestors, 

 ii. 7 



Despair, Cape, ii. 81 



Dinner, a, given to Indians, i. 341 



Distance, an Indian's mode of indica- 

 ting, i. 148 



Dividing Ridge, cache made at, i. 139 



Dog, the, buried with his master, 

 amongst the Indians, i. 171 



Dog Island, abundance of the cod fish 

 at, i. 300 



Dogs, Labrador, ii. 155 



— their summer and winter life, ii. 155 



— their destruction of almost every 

 domesticated animal, ii. 156 



— their sagacity, ii. 158 



— use of dogs to Indians in hunting 

 the bear, i. 184 



— comparative endurance of the Esqui- 

 maux and mixed breed of dogs, ii. 158 



