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INDEX. 



MON 



Montagnais Indians — continued 



— their cruelty to their Iroquois pri- 

 soners, i. 272 



— incursions of the Iroquois into the 

 Labrador Peninsula in 1665, i. 272 



— the Montagnais of 1660, and their 

 dread of the Iroquois tribe, i. 320 



— language spoken by them, i. 322 



— a Montagnais squaw, i. 336 



— licentiousness of the Montagnais in 

 their lodges, i. 338 



— their mortality on the coast, i. 343 



— a Montagnais marriage, i. 347 



— a Montagnais girl's reasons for not 

 marrying her lover, i. 349 



— chief cause of their wars with the 

 Esquimaux, ii. 204 



— a Montagnais dance in the 17 th 

 century, ii. 9 



— number of the Montagnais near 

 Quebec in 1632, ii. 9 



— area of country occupied by them, 

 ii. 9 



— their name of ' the Ne-e-no il-no,' or 

 perfect men, ii. 10 



— Paul le Jeune's account of them, ii. 

 10 



— their cruelty to their prisoners, ii. 

 11 



— their wars with the Mohawks and 

 Esquimaux, ii. 1 1 



— Gabriel Sagard's description of them, 

 ii. 11 



— their superstitions, ii. 12 



— their representation of summer and 

 winter, ii. 12 



— their belief in spirits of the air, ii. 

 12 



— their conjurors, ii. 12 



— sacrifices rendered to their deities, 

 the Kichi-Kouai, ii. 13 



— the Manitou and his wife, the spirits 

 of evil, ii. 13 



— Montagnais belief in the spiritual 

 existence of every material thing, ii. 

 13 



— vapour-baths of the conjurors, ii. 14 



— fasting, ii. 1.5 



— their custom when a bear -was 

 brought into camp, ii. 15 



— their respect for their conjurors, ii. 

 16 



— characteristics of the Montagnais, ii. 

 17 



— their feasts, ii. 17 



— their mode of boiling their meat, ii. 

 18 



— their winter life, ii. 19 



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Montagnais Indians — continued 



— their numbers in the 17th century, 

 ii. 19 



— diminution of their population, ii. 19 



— tribes of Montagnais on the river 

 Godbout, ii. 22 



— Lake St. John, the rendezvous of 

 the Montagnais andNasquapees, ii. 23 



— retirement of the missionaries and 

 lapse of the Indians into heathenism, 

 ii. 24 



— Cartwright's description of the peo- 

 ple in 1786, ii. 24 



— history of missions to the Montag- 

 nais, ii. 25, 26 



— riot and debauchery of Indians in 

 the Bay of Seven Islands, ii. 29 



— Montagnais traditionary account of 

 the origin of the name of the Manitou 

 river, ii. 41 



— their conflicts with the Micmacs or 

 Souriquois, ii. 41, 45 



— present condition of the Montag- 

 nais, ii. 112 



— assemblage of Montagnais at Min- 

 gan, ii. 112 



— epidemic among them, ii. 113 



— the winding-sheet, ii. 113 



— death with the setting sun, ii. 1 14 



— causes of the sickness and death 

 among the Montagnais, ii. 114 



— consciousness of their slow but sure 

 decline, ii. 115 



— appeal of Montagnais to the Cana- 

 dian government, ii. 115 



, — amount of furs traded by this tribe, 

 ii. 118, note 



— evidence of Pere Arnaud on the 

 condition of the tribe, ii. 119 



— testimony of Mrs. Chisholm, ii. 120 



— lands set apart for the Montngnais 

 tribe in the King's Posts, ii. 124 



— the Montagnais incapable of resign- 

 ing their wild life, ii. 169 



— influence of the ' wild goose clang ' 

 upon them, ii. 170 



Montapedia road, the, ii. 56 

 Montreal, earthquakes at, i. 260 



— the city of, founded on the site of 

 Hochelaga, ii. 3 



— history of the Algonquins of, ii. 6, 

 et seq. 



Monts Peles, the Nation des, ii. 20, 22 

 Monts, Point des, ii. 60 

 Moose, i. 1 2 1 



— moose calling, i. 122 



— an Indian's mode of killing three 

 moose in a lake, i. 123 



