INDEX. 



281 



HADDOCK, abundance of the, along 

 the coast of Canada, i. 29cS 

 Halibut, abundance of the, along the 



coast of Canada, i. 298 

 Hamilton Inlet, or Invertoke, i. 10, 12, 

 260 



— Indian route to, ii. 135 



— shores of the Inlet, ii. 136 



— country north and north-west of the 

 Inlet, ii. 138 



— and south, ii. 139 



— Mr. Davis's description of a great 

 fire on, i. 206 



Hamilton River. See Ashwanipi river 

 Happy hunting grounds of the Indians, 



ii. 13 

 Hare Indians, i. 10 

 Hatteras River, ii. 40 

 Heath Point, cultivation of the land at, 



ii. 74 

 Hebron, Moravian mission at, ii. 199 

 Height of Land Lake, i. 173, 174 

 • — of Land Portage, i. 175 

 Henley Harbour, basaltic columns of, 



ii. 145 

 Henry, Cape (Anticosti), ii. 76 

 Herring fishery of Seven Islands, i. 320 



— description of a ' brush fishery,' 

 i. 326 



— immense numbers of herrings on 

 the North American coasts, i. 326 



— difference between the American 

 and European herring, i. 326 



— habits of the fish, i. .327 



— size of the herring shoals, i. 327 



— prodigious abundance of the ova of 

 the herring, i. 327 



— - the fat kind called the Labrador 

 herring, i. 328 



— mode of catching herrings, i. 329 



— of the Gulf of St. Lavprence and 

 Labrador, value of the, ii. 229 



— room for improvement, ii. 229 



— annual loss from bad curing, ii. 229 



— e.xportation of herrings, ii. 230 



— migratory habits of the fish, ii. 230 



— immense shoals of, caught off the 

 Canadian coast, i. 298 



High Water Portage, on the Moisie 



River, i. 29 

 Hind, Mr. William, i. 2 

 Hochelaga, Indian village of, visited 



by Jacques Cartier, ii. 2 



— Ciiamplain's visit to the site of, ii. 3 



— Montreal founded on the site of, 

 ii. 3 



Hocquart's description of the limits of 

 the Domaine quoted, i. 1 1 



ICE 



Hog, the ground common about the 



Saugenay river previous to 1823, i. 



224 

 Holliday, Mr., his hospitality, i. 290 

 Hontan, the Baron de la, his summing 



up of the results of the Jesuit missions 



to the Indians, ii. 177 

 Hooks of the Nasquapees, ii. 107 

 Horse Island, great numbers of trout 



caught on the shoals near, i. 267 

 Hopedale, Moravian mission at, ii. 199 

 Hospitality of the Labradorians, ii. 160 

 Houses of Labrador, ii. 151 

 Hudson's Bay, first voyage from the 



Gulf of St. Lawrence to, ii. 22 



— the white whale common in, ii. 91 

 Hudson's Bay Company — 



— The Company's post attacked by 



the Mustegans, ii. 16 



— number of Indians visiting the post 

 north-east of the Saugenay and Ru- 

 pert's Iliver, ii. 117 



— the Company's farm at Rigolette, 

 ii. 140 



— their rights on the coast of Labra- 

 dor, ii. 181 



Hump-backed whales, ii. 90 



Hunt, Dr. Sterry, his remarks on the 

 use of fish as a manure quoted, i. 

 309 



Hunting-ground, rich, on the St. Au- 

 gustine River, ii. 135, 136 



Huron Indians, fate of a party of, at the 

 cataract of She-we-na-he-gan, i. 274 



Huron, Lake, diseases of the Indians of, 

 i. 191 



— large trout of, i. 267 



TASH-NER-NUS-KOW, Lake, i. 

 1 205 



— the Indian letter found on the banks 

 of, i. 270 



— fall of the waters of the Lake, i. 271 

 Ice, beautiful effect of the sun on the, 



i. 67 



— in the woods on the banks of the 

 Moisie River, i. 77 



— ice the great drawback in the winter 

 to the navigation of the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, ii. 60 



— use of, in preserving fish, ii. 237 



— ice wealth of the North, ii. 237 



— anchor-ice, ii. 209 



Ice-bergs in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



ii. 59 

 Ice-bridges on the St. Lawrence, ii. 50 

 Ice-floes, hunting seals on, ii. 205 



