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INDEX. 



ICE 



, Ice-floes — continued 



— perils of the chase, ii. 205, 206 



Ice signals, importance of, at the light- 

 house of Belle Isle, ii. Gl 



Ice water, effects of drinking, i. 278 



Ichimanpistick, or River of Seven 

 Islands, i. 11 



Ignace, the voyageur, his joy at the 

 falling- of the Moisie, i. 89 



Indians, their mode of making a de- 

 scription emphatic, i. 4 



— energy and bodily strength lost by 

 Indians when on the coast, i. 4 



— their food in a mountainous country 

 compared with that on the coast, i. 4 



— Indian maps of the interior of La- 

 brador, i. 10 



— a Montagnais squaw, i. 21, 22 



— Indian care respecting medicine, 

 i. 26 



■ — an Indian mode of making a cover- 

 ing impervious to rain, i. 31 



— resemblance between the dialects of 

 the Montagnais and Crees, i. 3.3 



— the Crees' remedy for all kinds of 

 sickness, i. 34 



— Indian mode of making a cache to 

 protect their furs from the carca- 

 jou, i. 50 



— the Montagnais Indian with the 

 dead body of his cousin, i. 55 



— their su])ei stitious fears of the Wen- 

 digoes, or cannibal giants, i. 59 



— Montagnais' mythology respecting 

 the creation and repair of the world, 

 i. 60 



— resemblance between Montagnais 

 and Odahwah traditions, i. 61 



■ — Domenique, the Montagnais chief, 

 i. 78 



— an Indian chief's worldly wealth, 

 i. 79 



— winter hunting, i. 80, 81 



— Domenique 's account of the Indians 

 of the Moisie River and Ashwanipi 

 Lake, i. 81, 82 



- — the Nasquapce custom of marking 

 themselves over the cheek-bone, 

 i. 82 



— a visit to a Montagnais camp in the 

 woods, i. 89 



— Indians spearing salmon by torch- 

 light, i. 99-103 



— Indian intermarriages, i. 110 



■ — nothing lost on an Indian trail, i. 

 117 



— remains of Indian lodges near Cold 

 Water River portage, i. 118 



Indians — continued 



— Indians have no notion of the mul- 

 tiple of a measure, i. 141 



— intelligence of a young Nasquapee, 

 i. 148 



— Indian signs indicating distance and 

 time, i. 149, 150 



— Indian mode of obtaining fire, i. 149 

 — ■ their danger in drinking cold water 



when hot, i. 168 



— an instance of affection of the Tete 

 de Boule Indians, i. 169 



— burial rites of the Indians, i. 169, 

 170 



— resemblance of Indian customs, from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific, i. 171 



— their custom of pointing "with their 

 lips, i. 173 



— Indian methods of taking precau- 

 tions against colds, i. 177 



— meeting of the two trails to the 

 coast, and the ' outlook ' at Trout 

 Lake, i. 181 



— Indian superstitions, i. 183-185 



— Indian medicines, i. 189 



— implicit faith placed by Indians in 

 their dreams, i. 190 



— Dr. Darling's report on the causes 

 of disease among the Indians, i. 191 



— mortality' amongst Indians as com- 

 pared with that of Europeans, i. 

 192 



— temporary insanity of an Indian 

 from fatigue, i. 196 



— singular and lamentable incident 

 among the Tete de Boule Indians, 

 i. 197 



— sufferings of the Indians during 

 winter, i. 198 



— season for hunting the caribou, 

 i. 199 



— their mode of discovering their 

 whereabouts to their friends, i. 205 



— their caribou feasts, i. 239 



— sketch of an Indian returning from 

 a successful hunt, i. 239 



— Indian bear-feasts, i. 240 



— starvation of Indians in the winter, 

 i. 243, 248 



— instances of cannibalism among the 

 Indians, i. 244 



— advent of the Canada goose, i. 245 



— mode in which the Nasi^uapecs and 

 Montagnais pass their winter at the 

 Dividing Ridge, i. 246 



— effect of the fires of Labrador on 

 the Indians' means of subsistence, 

 i. 251 



