INDEX. 



297 



POT 



Potash, value of, as a manure, i. 314, 



note 

 Potatoes grown on Anticosti, ii. 75 

 Prairie Portage, great numbers of rab- 

 bits at, i. 108 

 Prince Edward's Island, statistics of, ii. 



85, note 

 Prisoners of war, Indian cruelties to, 



ii. 11 

 Provisions requisite for the exploring 



party, i. 3 

 Prunus Virgineana, or wild cherry, 



the bark of, used by the Indians as a 



medicine, i. 191, note 

 Ptarmigan, or white partridge, large 



numbers of, at Lake Mushualagan, i. 



200 



— the ptarmigan of Labrador, i. 244 

 Puffius, vast numbers of, on the Min- 



gan Islands, ii. 48 



— on the Bird Rocks, ii. 68 

 Purgatives, Indian, i. 189 



QUEBEC, earthquakes which have 

 occurred at, i. 259, 260 



— Indian name of, ii. G 



— width of the St. Lawrence at, ii. 55 



— possibility of steamers reaching 

 Quebec in the winter, ii. 55 



— distances (shore, not sailing dist.) 

 from Quebec to Blanc Sablon, the 

 eastern boundary of Canada, ii. 251 



Quinte, Bay of, price of land in the, 

 at the end of the last century, i. 85 



Quirpon, the English church at, ii. 

 196 



RABBITS, hunting for, i. 107 

 — former large numbers of, i. 108 



— their disappearance, i. 108 



— their importance to Indians, i. 108 



— rabbit pemmican, i. 108 



— mode of catching rabbits, i. 109 

 Railway, projected, from Quebec to 



Halifax, ii. 56 

 Rain-drops, frozen, i. 38 

 Rain, heavy, on the Moisie river, i. 



107 

 Rapids of the Ashwanipi river, i. 13 



of the Moisie river, i. 29 



Skatchewan, i. 32 



of the Nipisis river, i. 209 



delightful features of the passage of, 

 i. 268, 269 



of the Moisie, passage down the, 

 i. 287 



PJV 

 Rapids — continued 



a narrow escape at the fourth rapid, 

 i. 289 

 Ray, Cape, ii. 58, 59 

 Red Bay, Chm-eh of England mission 



at, ii. 197 

 Red Isle (Bio), ii. 55, 57, 60 

 Reindeer, formerly abundant in the 



Labrador Peninsula, ii. 106 



— or caribou. See Caribou 

 Religion of the Nasquapee Indians, i. 12 

 Remedies for illnesses, Indian, i. 189 

 Reptile, a lizard the only, seen in the 



Moisie valley, i. 276 

 Reptiles, none found on Anticosti, ii. 70 

 Restigouche River, Micmac Indians of 



the, i. 6, note; ii. 81, 82 

 Rheumatism, Indian remedy for, i. 189 

 Richardson, Mr. James, his survey of 



the island of Anticosti, ii. 72 

 Richmond, in Canada, earthquake at, 



i. 261 

 Ridge Portage, i. 136 



— estimates of its height, i. 141 

 Rigolette, Hudson Bay Company's farm 



at, ii. 140 



— stunted timber of the, ii. 187 

 Rimousky, cod fishery of, i. 300 

 River: — 



Ashwanipi, or Hamilton, i. 10, 12 ; 



ii. 134 

 A-ta-chi-ka-mi-shish,or Cold Water, 



i. 34, 112, 139, 175, 180 

 Bersiamits, i. 7, 124, 256; ii. 43 

 Chat, ii. 57 

 Chi-sche-dec, ii. 27 

 Cold Water, i. 34, 112, 139, 175, 180 

 Esquimaux, i. 10 

 George's, ii. 141 

 Godbout, ii. 240 

 Hamilton, or Ashwanipi, i. 12 

 Hatteras, ii. 40 

 Ichimanipistick, or River of Seven 



Islands, i. 11 

 Kenamou, ii. 135, 138 

 Koksoak, or South, ii. 140, 141 

 Kouakoueou, i. 255 

 Large, ii. 60 

 Magdalen, ii. 60 

 Manicouagan, i. 194 

 Manitou, ii. 40 

 Matan, ii. 57 

 Matawan, i. 156 

 Maurice, St., i. 273 

 ^lesickkimau, or North-west, ii. 135 

 Metabetshuau river, ii. 38 

 Mistassinni, or Riviere des Sables, 



i. 7 ; ii. 147 



