300 



INDEX. 



SEE 



See-way-sini-Kop — continued ■ 



— trout and salmon fry caught at, i. 

 282 



Seignorial rights, injurious influence of, 



on the coast of Labrador, ii. 131 

 Seines, herring, size of, i. 329 

 Seven Islands, Nasquapee Indians of, 

 i. 4 



— their beauty as seen from the Moisie 

 Bay, ii. 319 



— a favourite hunting and fishing 

 ground of the Montagnais Indians, i. 

 320 



— the Indian graveyard at, i. 342 



— departure of Pere Arnaud and the 

 Indians from, ii. 350 



Sevpn Islands, Bay of, i. 9 ; ii. 27 



— fabulous fishes in the, ii. 27 



— its extent, ii. 28 



— scenery of the bay, ii. 28, 31 



— its admirable situation, ii. 29 



— animal life in the bay, ii. 29 



— riots and debauchery of Indians in, 

 ii. 29 



— condition of the Indians of, in 1660, 

 ii. 30 



— former trading post at the bay, ii. 

 36 



Seward, the Hon. W. H., his reflections 



on the future of British America, ii. 



252 

 Sewell, Chief Justice, his account of the 



'Dark Days of Canada,' in 1785 and 



1814, i. 251, 252 

 Shale, a black bituminous, mixed with 



fish offal for manure, i. 312 



— Dr. Reid's analyses of various kinds 

 of, i. 3 1 2 



Sharks, immense numbers of, in the 

 Gulf of St, Lawrence, ii. 91 



— why the captain was thankful for 

 sharks, ii. 91 



Sheldrake River, abundance of the cod- 

 fish in the, i. 300 



She-we-na-he-gan, cataract of, on the 

 St. Maurice, murder of the Algon- 

 kins by the Iroquois at the, i. 273 



— fate of the party of Huron Indians 

 at, i. 274 



Shick- Shock mountains, ii. 57 

 Shipwreck, causes of, in the Gulf of St. 



Lawrence, ii. 58, 59 

 Silurian limestone, lower, of the Mingan 



Islands, ii. 47 

 Simpson, Sir George, his evidence on 



the condition of the inhabitants of the 



north-eastern portion of the Labrador 



Peninsula, i. 14 



SPR 



Singing of the Montagnais and Nasqua- 

 pee Indians, i. 335,^340 



Sixth Lake, or Ka-jib-wa-le-ka-pas, i. 

 172 



Skatchewan Rapids on the Moisie river, 

 i. 32 



— ascent of the rapids in canoes, i. 39 



— dangers of the ascent, i. 41 

 Skunk, the fat of the, used by the In- 

 dians, a remedy in certain diseases, 

 i. 189 



— the fetid secretion used as a cure for 

 tooth- ache and rheumatism, i. 189 



Smell, Indian acute sense of, ii. 105 

 Snow-shoes of the Nasquapee Indians, 



i. 324, 345 

 Soil, excellence of the, at Cold "Water 



River portage, for the growth of 



timber, i. 1 1 5 



— of the island of Anticosti, ii. 72 



— of thehai'bour of Natashquan,ii. 131 



— of the country near Lake Petichiku- 

 pau, ii. 144 



— of the Ungava district, ii. 145 



— of the Mistassinna country, ii. 148 

 Soul, Montagnais superstitions respect- 

 ing the, ii. 13 



Souriquois Indians, their wars with the 

 Montagnais, ii. 41 



— their former extensive hunting 

 grounds, ii. 43 



South river, or Koksoak, in Ungava 

 Bay, ii. 140 



— its course, extent, and character of 

 its valley, ii. 141 



South River House, ii. 141 

 South-west Point, cultivation of land 



at, ii. 74 

 Spar Point, in 1853, ii. 151 

 Spirits, Montagnais belief in the, of the 



air, ii. 12 

 Spiritual rapping practised for ages by 



Indian conjurors, ii. 102 

 Spruce trees on the shores of Moisie 



Bay, i. 16 



— at Grand Portage, i. 45 



— large of the spruce at the second 

 gorge of the Moisie, i. 104 



— sapin, or branches of spruce, used 

 for tent floors, i. 176 



— spruce-bark tents, waterproof, i. 37 



— mode of making them, i. 37 



— spruce trees of the shores of Moisie 

 Bay, ii. 319 



— dense forests of, on the coasts of 

 Anticosti, ii. 70, 72 , 



— the red spruce, or juniper, of Lake 

 Petichikupau, ii. 144 



