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SAL 



Salmon in Moisie Bay — continned 



— excellence of the salmon-fishing 

 ground at the Up-and-Down Portage, 

 on the Moisie, i. 97 



— description of Indian salmon-spear- 

 ing by torch-light, i. 99-103 



— found in almost all the rivers of 

 Labrador, i. 298 



— growing importance of the trade in 

 fresh salmon, ii. 39 



— the Indians forbidden by law to fish 

 for salmon in their own way, ii. 122, 

 123 



— value and importance of the salmon 

 fisheries of British North America, 

 ii. 236 



— former productions of the Cana- 

 dian rivers, ii. 236 



— importance of the proposed inter- 

 colonial railway to the extension of 

 the Gulf fisheries, ii. 237 



— use of ice and ice wealth of the 

 North, ii. 237 



— results of salmon fly-fishing in Ca- 

 nada, ii. 238 



— on the Moisie, ii. 239 



— on the Godbout, ii. 240 



— salmon fisheries of the Moisie, ii. 39 



— vast numbers of salmon in Labra- 

 dor, ii. 193 



Salmon Bay, abundance of the cod fish 



at, i. 300 

 Salmon River, timber of the valley of, 



ii. 73 

 Salt and salines on the coast of Anti- 



costi, ii. 82 

 Salt-water Lake, ii. 187, 188 

 Sand, isthmus of, on the river Moisie, 



1. 97 

 Sandy Hill Indians, influence of the 



physical features of their country 



upon them, ii. 170 

 Sanguinaria Canadensis, the root of, 



used by the Indians as a medicine, 



i. 191, note 

 Sapin of the voyageurs, i. 189 

 Saugeuay River, an Indian dance on 



the, in the 17th century, ii. 9 

 • — commencement of the mission to 



the, ii. 2.5 



— its depth at its junction with the St. 

 Lawrence, ii. 55 



— the Saugenay route to Hudson's 

 Bay first known to Europeans, ii. 22 



Savanne Portage, great numbers of 



rabbits at, i. 108 

 Sawbill ducks, i. 137 

 Sawbill duck on the lake again, i. 276 



SEE 



Sawbill River, black magnetic oxide of 



iron found at, ii. 46 

 Scenery on the banks of the river 



Moisie at the second gorge, i. 104 

 Schooner of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 



ii. 86 

 Scrofula, causes of, among the Indians, 



i. 192 

 Seal, golden {Hydrastis Canadensis), 



root of the, formerly used by the 



Indians, i. 190, iwte 



— seals used as food by the Labrador 

 Indians, i. 4 



■ — Indian mode of hunting seals on the 

 river Moisie, i. 22 



— seals in the river Moisie, i. 96, 228 



— innumerable herds of, in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence in November and De- 

 cember, i. 298 



— time at which the young females 

 deposit their young, i. 298 



— seal-oil used by the Indians, i. 325 



— abundance of, around the Mingan 

 Islands, ii. 48 



— on Anticosti, ii. 70 



— of Natashquan, ii. 154 



— account of the seal-fishery of Labra- 

 dor, ii. 201 



— excitement of the seal-fishery, ii, 

 201 



— habits of the seal, ii. 202 ct seq. 



— M. Pierre Fortius's account of it, ii. 

 201, 7wte 



— its capabilities, ii. 203 



— the harbour seal, ii. 203 



— seals the chief cause of the frequent 

 wars between the Montagnais and 

 Esquimaux, ii. 204 



— hunting seals on ice-floes, ii. 205 



— perils of the chase, ii. 205 



— the frozen hunters, ii. 206 



— the lost Acadians, ii, 207 



— seal-nets, ii. 207 



— nets frozen under water, ii. 209 



— the spring fishing, ii, 211 



— pale seal oil, ii. 211 



— annual yield of the Canadian shores 

 of the Gulf, ii. 211 



— seal-hunting in the Atlantic, ii. 211 



— Newfoundland sealing, ii. 212 



— great value of this trade, ii, 212, 

 213 



— value of the seal to the Esquimaux, 

 ii. 214 



Seaweed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 ii. 92 



See-way-sini-Kop, Up-and-Down Por- 

 tage, on the Moisie river, i. 96 



