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INDEX. 



ESQ 



Esquimaux River, Indian chart of the, 



i. 10 

 Esquimaux whip, the, ii. 156, 159 

 Exploration of the Labrador Peninsula, 



requisites for the, i. 1 



— the personnel, i. 2 



— the equipment and provisions, i. 2, 3 



17 ALLS of the Ashwanipi river, i. 13 

 . — height of the falls at Cold 

 Water River portage, i. 119, 129 



— the first falls of the Moisie, i. 96 

 Famine, caused by wolves duiing the 



early history of Upper Canada, i. 85 



— among the Nasquapees in winter, 

 ii. 105 



Fasting, a means of training and form- 

 ing the character of Indian youth, 

 i. 178 



— practised by the Montagnais Indians, 

 ii. 15 



Feasts of the Montagnais Indians, ii. 17 



— manner of conducting their feasts, 

 ii. 17 



Felspar, Labrador, of the banks of the 

 Moisie river, i. 32 



— rocks of, at Cold Water River por- 

 tage, i. 114 



Finlayson, John, his great catch of 



trout, i. 267 

 Fire, escape from a, on the portage, i. 



204 



— Indian mode of obtaining, i. 149, 150 



— narrow escape of the canoes, i. 204 



— destructiveness of fires in the woods, 

 i. 205 



— causes of these fires, i. 205 



— Mr. Davis's description of a great 

 fire on Hamilton Inlet, i. 206 



— magnificent spectacle of a burning 

 forest of spruce and birch, i. 208 



— wild-fowl falling into the flames, 

 i. 209 



— a visit to the Burnt Country, i. 225 

 ei seq. 



— Indian traditional accounts of con- 

 flagrations in the interior of Labra- 

 dor, i. 248 



— important effects of these fires on 

 the Indians' means of subsistence, i. 

 251 



— probable causes of the ' Dark Days 

 of Canada,' i. 251 



Fire mountain, the, of the Indians near 

 Lake Manicouagan, i. 32, 195, 261 



Fire-rocks of the Montagnais Indians, 

 i. 32 



Fish, salmon of Moisie Bay, i. 16 



FIS 



Fish' — continued 



— found in Mushualagan Lake, i. 198 

 • — - scarcity of fish and severity of the 



frost in winter in Labrador, i. 248 



— fishing-spoons of the Esquimaux, 

 i. 266 



— mode of taking herrings in a 'brush 

 fishery,' i. 326 



— swarms of fish in the Bay of Cha- 

 leurs, ii. 67 



Fisheries, importance of the, of Labra- 

 dor, i. 8; ii. 189, 193 



— of the coast of Antieosti, ii. 84 



— of Natashquan, ii. 155 



— on the political and commercial im- 

 portance of the, in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, Labrador, and New- 

 foundland, ii. 216 



— importance attached to the fisheries 

 by different nations, ii. 216 



— North America the nursery- of 

 French sailors during the first half 

 of the 1 8th century, ii. 216 



— Louisburgand its two sieges, ii. 216 

 -218 



— importance of the fisheries to the 

 United States, ii. 220 



— the convention between her Majesty 

 and the Emperor of the French, ii. 

 220 



— brief history of the Newfoundland 

 fisheries, ii. 222 



— importance of 'bait,' ii. 225 



— illegal traffic in 'bait,' ii. 225 



— testimony of a French official to the 

 value of the North American fisheries, 

 ii. 227 



— and of a United States document, 

 ii. 228 



— value of the herring fishery of the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence and of Labra- 

 dor, ii. 229 



— the mackerel fishery, ii. 231 



— the cod fishery, ii. 234 



— the salmon fishery, ii. 236 



— importance of the proposed inter- 

 colonial railway, ii. 237 



— aggregate value of the British 

 American fisheries, ii. 241 



— injuries and cruelties committed by 

 American fishermen upon the Cana- 

 dians, ii. 243 



— oyster-beds in the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, ii. 244 



— inactivity of the French Canadians 

 with respect to the fisheries, ii. 244 



— extract from the Reciprocity Treaty, 

 ii. 245 



