I^DEX. 



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NIA 



Niagara, earthquake at, i. 261 

 Night, tranquillity of, on the river 

 Moisie, i. 68 



— in a beautiful wiklerness, i. 131 

 Niglit-blindness, or nyctalopia, among 



the lumberers in the backwoods of 

 Canada, i. 153, 163 



— Laronde, the night-blind -voyageur, 

 i. 153 



— feelings of the night-blind, i. 155 



— dreadful appearance of night-blind 

 men, i. 155 



— Laronde's story of the night-blind 

 voyageurs, i. 156 



— difference between night-blindness 

 and snow-blindness, i. 163 



— lumbermen's notions of the causes of 

 the disease, i. 163 



Nipinoukhe, the Montagnais deity re- 

 presenting summer, ii. 12 

 Nipisis Lake, level of, i. 187 



— storm on the lake, i. 194 



— boulders or erratics on the shores, 

 i. 194 



— caribou horns found near, i, 202 



— beaver tracks near, i. 202 



Nipisis River, fresh tracks of animals 

 on the banks of the, i. 203 



— formidable rapids of the Nipisis, i. 

 209 



— abundance of trout in the, i. 209 



— gneiss hills on either side, i. 209 

 ■ — mosquitoes, i. 209 



■ — boulders in the bed. of the river, i. 



209 

 ■ — descending the rapids, i. 210 



— snow-white rock on the banks of 

 the, i. 210,217 



— - tracks of animals on the shores of 



the, i. 210 



— a bear on the bank at early morn, 

 i. 211 



— beaver at work, i. 212 



— caribou seen near, i. 212 



— desolate character of the river, i. 

 227 



— shallowness of the river, i. 228 

 Ni-the-wuk, or ' complete men,' of Sir 



John Richardson, ii. 10 

 Notre Dame mountains, ii. 56 

 Nouvel, Pere Henri, his account of the 



earthquake of 1 663, i. 255 



— his visit to a tribe of Montagnais, 

 ii. 20 



- — his conversation with an Oumanois 

 chief, ii. 21 



— Nova Scotia, degraded state of the 

 Micmac Indians of, i. 6, }iote 



OUM 



Nyctalopia among the lumberers in the 

 backwoods of Canada, i. 153. See 

 Night-blindness 



OATS grown on Anticosti, ii. 75 

 Ochestgouetch Indians, visit of 

 Pere Henri Nouvel to the, ii 20 

 Odahvvah Indians, resemblance between 

 their traditions and those of the 

 Montagnais Indians, i. 61 



— Francis Assikinack, the Odahwah 

 warrior, i. 61, note 



— their mode of bringing up their 

 children, i. 177, note 



— similarity of their customs to those 

 of the Jews, i. 179 



Ojia-pi-si-tagan Nipi, or Top of the 

 Ridge Lake, i. 1 36 



— beauty and character of the scenery, 

 i. 136,143 



— no fish in the lake, i. 137 



— size of the lake, i. 139 



Ojibway Indians, their superstitions, i. 

 185, 186 



— their fondness for gambling, i. 283 



— their game of bones, f. 277 

 Ojita-scu-tagan, or Height of Land 



Lake, i. 173, 174 

 Ok-kak, Moravian mission at, ii. 199 

 Onontchataronons, or Iroquet, Indians, 



ii. 4, 6, 7tole 

 Ontario, Lake, fluctuations in the rise 



and fall of the water of, i. 259 



— Captain G. G. Meade's survey of 

 the Canadian Lakes, and the conclu- 

 sions drawn from it, i. 259, 260, 

 note 



Otelne, the Indian, at Seven Islands, i. 

 321 



— visit to him in his lodge, i. 322 

 ■ — Otelne in chapel, i. 337 



— invited to dinner, i. 341 



— his physique, i. 345 



— his fit of abstraction by the sea-side, 

 ii. 31 



— his speech, ii. 32 



— his dream, ii. 33 

 Ottawa, earthquake at, i. 261 

 Ottawa Indians. See Odahwahs 

 Otters on the Sixth Lake, i. 172 

 Ouelle, river, ii. 90 



— violent earthquake at the, i. 261 

 Oumamiwek Indians, their hunting- 

 grounds, ii. 22 



— their aversion to conjurors, ii. 22 

 Oumanois Indian, conversation of Pere 



Henri Nouvel with an, ii. 21 



