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UDgava Bay — continued 



— rivers falling into, ii. 141 



— lakes oa the northern watershed of, 

 ii. 142 



— Mr. Davies' description of the Bay, 

 ii, 188 



United States, importance of the North 

 American fisheries to the, ii. 219 



— bounties paid to their fishermen, ii. 

 219 



— annual value of the United States 

 fisheries, ii. 219 



— document of the House of Repre- 

 sentatives on the value of the New- 

 foundland fisheries, ii. 228 



— injuries and cruelties committed by 

 Americans upon Canadian fishermen, 

 ii. 243 



— the immense oyster trade of Ame- 

 rica, ii. 244 



• — extract from the Reciprocity Treaty, 



ii. 245 

 Up-and-Down Portage, on the Moisie 



river, i. 96 

 ' Ups,' the Nasquapee, or hills, i. 146 

 Usnea, growing near Trout Lake, i. 182 



T7 ACHES, Pointe aux, ii, 29 

 V Vandreuil et de Beauharnais, M. 

 de, on the French settlements in 

 Labrador, ii. 129 



Vapour-bath, the favourite remedy of 

 the Cree Indians for all kinds of 

 sickness, i. 34 



■ — vapour-baths of the Indian con- 

 jurors, ii. 14 



Vegetation of Moisie Bay, i. 16 



— of the Moisie river, i. 24 



— of the valley of the Moisie at the 

 Grand Portage, i. 36, 42 



— and of a valley near the Grand 

 Portage, i. 44 



— at the second gorge of the river 

 Moisie, i. 104, 107 



— of the valley at Cold Water River 

 portage, i. 115 



— first efforts of vegetable life in the 

 gneiss rocks, i. 133 



— of the valleys near the Top of the 

 Ridge Lake, i. 139 



— beauty of the vegetable life near 

 Trout Lake, i. 182 



— near the Nipisis Lake, i. 218 



— of Labrador contrasted with that of 

 the valley of the Saskatchewan, i. 

 223 



— peculiar to Antico.sti, ii. 70 



Ventadour, the Due de, his commence- 

 naent of the Jesuit missions to Canada, 

 ii. 172 



Vermillion River, slaughter of Algon- 

 kins by Iroquois on the, i. 273, 274 



Verte, La Riviere, the Amalicite In- 

 dians of, i. 6, note 



Viger, Amalicite Indians of the town- 

 ship of, i. 6, note 



Vimont, Barthelemy, his account of the 

 Algonkin population of the Valley of 

 the St. Lawrence, ii. 19 



Volcanoes, Indian traditional accounts 

 of, in the Labrador Peninsula, i. 

 254-256 



— the fire-mountain of the Nasquapees 

 north of Lake Manicouagan, i. 261 



Vomit, Indian medicine for obtaining 

 a, i. 189 



WALRUS, the, formerly found in 

 Bay of Seven Islands, ii. 29 

 Walrus Island, ii. 49 

 War dance, an Indian, of the 17th 



century, ii. 9 

 Washquah river, ii. 141 

 Waterfalls, on the Moisie river, i. 69 



— in the hills near the second gorge of 

 the Moisie, i. 107 



Water-lily, the roots of the white, used 



by the Indians as food and medicine, 



i. 189 

 Wendigoes, or giant cannibals, Mon- 



tagnais' superstitions respecting the, 



i. 59 

 Whale Deep, ii. 65 

 Whale oil, ii. 90 

 Whales, annual visits of, different 



kinds of, to Mingan aud St. Johu, i. 



298 



— in Magpie Bay, ii. 89 



— sulphur-bottomed whale, ii. 89 



— immense hump-backed whales, ii. 

 90 



— various kinds found in the Gulf, ii. 

 90 



— extent and value of the whale 

 fishery of Gaspe Bay, ii. DO 



— the white whale {Beluga boreali.s), 

 ii. 90 



— whale leather, ii. 90 



— immense numbers of the white 

 whale, ii. 90 



— white whale common in Hudson's 

 Bay, ii. 91 



— Esquimaux mode of capturing the 

 white whale, ii. 91 



