INDEX. 



277 



DOG 



Dog- sledge, ov commetique, of Labra- 

 dor, ii. 157, 158 



Dolbeau, Pure, the first missionary to 

 Tadousac, ii. 25 



Domaine du Roi, or territory of the 

 King's Posts Company, limits of the, 

 i. U 



— survey of the, ii. 36 

 Domenique, cliief of the Montagnais of 



the Moisie river and Ashwanipi Lake, 

 i. 78 



— his worldly wealth, i. 79 



— conversation with him, i. SO 



— his account of the first gorge of the 

 river Moisie, i. 81 



— of the upper country, i. 81 



— and of his tribe, i. 82 



— his adopted son, i. 82 



— his map of the country, i. 83, 85, 88 



— a visit to his camp in the woods, i. 

 89 



— refuses to accompany the exploring 

 party, i. 90 



— consents to allow his adopted son to 

 accompany them, i. 92 



— meeting with him at Seven Islands, 

 i. 321 



— his second-hand European dress, i. 

 321 



— his appearance at mass, i. 33G, 337 



— his mode of giving alms, i. 33G 



— his behaviour at dinne:', i. 341 

 Dream, Otelne's, ii. 33 



Dreams, implicit faith placed by Indians 



in their, i. 190 

 Dress of the Montagnais Indians, i. 22 

 Dreuillet, Pere Gabriel, ascends the 



Sagucnay and founds the mission of 



Assuapmushan, ii. 25, 26 

 Drift which formerly filled the whole 



valley of the Moisie, i. 112 



— of the island of Anticosti, ii. 72 

 Ducks, saw-bill, i. 137, 276 



— their tenderness and sagacity, i. 138 



— their habits, i. 138 



Durocher, Pore, his description of Nas- 

 quapces from the interior, ii. 109 



Dye, a brown, obtained from tripe de 

 roche, i. 232 



P^AGLE, the golden, i, 318 

 J Eagle, Cape (Anticosti). ii. 76 

 Earthiiuukes in the Labrador Peninsula, 

 i. 254 



— Henri Nouvel's account of the earth- 

 quake of 1663, i. 255 



— effect of an earthquake on an Indian 

 conjuror, i. 256 



ESQ 



Earthquakes — continued 



— Lieutenant Ingall's exploration of 

 the country between the St. Maurice 

 and the Saugenay, i. 256 



— Captain Baddeley's statement, i. 257 



— frequency of shocks in January and 

 February, i. 257 



— Mr. Gagnon's account of an earth- 

 quake near St. Paul's Bay, i. 257 



— list of earthquakes which have oc- 

 curred in Canada, i. 259 



Eels, abundance of, along the coast of 

 Canada, i. 298 



Elk, the, common about the Saugenay 

 river previous to 1823, i. 224 



Ellis, or Gamache, Bay, ii. 73 



Elm bark, slippery (Ulmusfulva), used 

 by the Indians as a medicine, i. 191, 

 note 



English Point, the first grave- yard con- 

 secrated at, ii. 197 



Epitaphs on Labrador graves, ii. 166 



Erie, Lake, fluctuations in the rise and 

 fall of the waters of, i. 259, Jiole 



— earthquake on the shores of, i. 260 

 Erratics on the shores of Lake Nipisis, 



i. 194 



— from the Mistassinni river to the 

 Atlantic, ii. 146 



Escoumins, cod fishery of, i. 300 

 Esquimaux of the northern coasts of 

 Labrador, i. 8 



— their summer excursions up the 

 rivers on the eastcoa.stof Labrador, i. 9 



— fishing-spoons of the, i. 266 



— their mode of capturing the white 

 whale, ii. 91 



— the old Esquimaux fort in St. Paul's 

 Bay, ii. 130 



— half-breeds of Labrador, ii. 162 



— a half-breed Esquimaux school in a 

 'tilt,' ii. 162 



— characteristics of the, of the Lower 

 JVIackenzie, ii. 163 



— Mr. Kirkby's account of their habits, 

 ii. 163 



— chief cause of their wars with the 

 Montagnais, ii. 204 



— details respecting the Esquimaux o( 

 Anderson's river, ii. 257 



— meaning of the word, ii. 162, jiote 



— value of the seal to the, ii. 214 

 Esquimaux Bay, description of, ii. 186 



— scenery of the Bay, ii. 186, 187 

 Esquimaux dogs, ii. 158 

 Esquimaux Island, ii. 49, 60 

 Esiiuiraaux Point, Acadian village at, 



ii. 151 



