INDEX. 



301 



SQU 



Scjuaw, affection of a, for her son,i. 169 

 Stadacona, or Quebec, Indian languages 



spoken at, ii. 6 

 St. Andrew's, earthquake at, i. 260 

 St. Augustine, Bay of, ii. 13.5 

 St. Augustine river, region drained by 



the, ii. 135 



— importance of the, ii. 135 



— rich hunting grounds on the, ii. 135, 

 136 



St. Francis, in Canada, the Abenakis 

 Indians of, i. 5, note 



— population of the tribe at, i. 5, note 

 St. Francis Harbour, first English 



church in, ii. 195 



St. John river, i. 11. 



St. John river, abundance of the cod 

 fish in the, i. 300 



St. John river, account of the region 

 drained by the, ii. 134 



St. Lawrence, Gulf of. .See Lawrence, 

 Gulf of St. 



St. Lawrence river. See Lawrence 

 River, St. 



Stony, the Indian, his passion for gam- 

 bling, i. 283, 284 



— his fondness for whiskey, i. 284 

 Storm on Lake Nipisis, i. 194 



St. Paul's Bay, ii. 130 



• — earthquakes near, i. 257, 260 



St. Paul's Island, ii, 58, 59, 68 



— dangers of the coast of, ii. 68 



— importance of placing a light on, ii. 

 68 



— Mr. Wayght's statement of ship- 

 wrecks on, ii. 69 



Strachan, Captain James, his fishing 



station on tlie Moisie, i. 25 

 Straits of Belle Isle, ii. 59, 60 

 Stramonium {Datura strainonitmi), used 



by the Indians as a medicine, i. 191, 



note 

 Strawberries, wild, on Anticosti, ii. 74 

 Strychnine used by traders for killing 



the fui'-beariug animals, i. 27 



— effect of this poison on different 

 animals, i. 27 



Sulphur-bottomed whale, ii. 89 

 Summer, Montagnais deity represent- 

 ing, ii. 12 

 Superior, Lake, immense numbers of 

 rabbits in the region west of, i. 108 



— and of spruce partridges, i. 108 



— trout fishing with the spoon in, i. 

 267 



— vast numbers of trout annually 

 caught in, i. 267 



Superstitions, Indian, i. 18.3-85; ii. 12, 

 114 



Swampy Creek Indians, their dwelling- 

 place, i. 8 



rpABLE- TURNING practised for 

 X ages by Indian conjurors, ii. 102 

 Tache, Charles, the elder, his evidence 

 on the way in which the early mis- 

 sionaries exacted furs from their 

 Indian converts, ii. 171 

 Tadousac, account of an eart;hquake at, 

 in 1663, i. 255 



— earthquake near, recorded by Pure 

 Frangois de Crepieul, i. 259, note 



— first mission of, ii. 25 

 Tamarack of the island of Anticosti, 



ii. 73 



Tarandus hastalis, or caribou. See Ca- 

 ribou 



Tatoo ng, custom of, amongst the In- 

 dians, ii. 98, 108, note 



— mode of tatooing, ii. 27, 98 



Tea, effects of drinking, in too copious 

 draughts, i. 278 



Tea- plant, Labrador, fragrance of the, 

 i. 130 



Tegahkouita, Catherine, the Indian 

 saint, sketch of her history, ii. 173 



Temperature, instance of an extraor- 

 dinary sudden reduction of, caused 

 by a cold blast from the north, i. 39 



Tents of American sail-cloth, i. 37 



— of spruce-bark, i. 37 



■ — mosquito-proof tents, i. 151 



Terre de Boccaleos, Newfoundland, so 



called by the two Cabots, ii. 12G 

 Tete de Boule Indians, instance of 



affection of one of the, i. 1 69 



— their habitat, i. 169, note 



— singular and lamentable incident 

 among the, i. 197 



— reduction of the tribe from various 

 causes, i. 275 



— their appearance, i. 275 



— great age of some of them, i. 275 



— their hunting-grounds, i. 275 



— the old Tete de Boule Majeshk, i. 

 275 



Tetu, Mr., his deep-sea fishery, i. 296 

 Theodolite, an Indian respect for a, 



i. 167 

 Thermometer, shocks to which it is 



subjected in forest travelling, i. 1 1 7 



— constant attention to the, important 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ii. 61 



