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INDEX. 



WHI 



Whip, Esquimaux, ii. 156, 159 



Whiskey jack, or Canadian jay, Mon- 

 tagnais superstition respecting the, 

 ii. 15 



Whittle, Cape, ii. 136 



Wild-fowl destroyed in a burning for- 

 est, i. 209 



— abundance of, in Seven Islands, i. 

 320 



Willow, the red {Comus alba vel sto- 

 lonifera), a decoction of, used as a 

 purgative by the Indians, i. 189 



— various Indian names of it, i. 

 189 



Winding-sheet, a Montagnais, ii. 113 

 Winds, prevailing, in the Gulf of St. 



Lawrence, ii. 5 7 

 Winter, Montagnais deity representing, 



ii. 12 



— Indian hunting in, i. 81 



■ — Indian mode of fishing in, ii. 107 



— winter life in the woods of the La- 

 brador Peninsula, i. 198-200 



. — Indian mode of passing the winter 



at the Dividing Ridge, i. 24 6 

 Wolf Indians of Upper Canada, their 



former alliance with the Abenakis, 



i. 5, 7iote 

 Wolf, the Gray or Strongwood (Canis 



occidentaUs, var. Giiseus, Rich.), effect 



of strychnine on, i. 27. 



YEO 



Wolf — continued 



— famines caused by wolves in Labra- 

 dor and Upper Canada, i. 85 



— their ferocity, i. 193 



— drive away the caribou from the 

 hunting-grounds, i. 199, 242 



Wolverine. See Carcajou 

 Women : — 



— marriageable age of the girls of the 

 Odahwah Indians, i. 179 



— degrees of relationship within which 

 marriage was forbidden, i. 179 



— diseases to which Indian women 

 are subject, i. 192 



— squaws preparing for Sunday, i. 

 331 



— a Montagnais squaw, i. 336 



— Appe-mus-kis' wives buying his 

 winding-sheet, i. 344 



— their apparent insensibility, but 

 silent grief, i. 344 



— a mistress's present to her lover, i. 

 345 



— condition of the Nasquapee women, 

 ii. 99, 100 



TEO ISLAND, great numbers 

 trout on the shoals near, i. 267 



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