CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Liou Reef. — Seals. — Mountains. — Ducks and Divers. — Daily Routine. 

 — Flaxman's Island. — Ice. — Large Drift Wood. — Bury Pemmicau. 

 — Dog seen. — Native Huts. — Presents. — Ethnographic Distinc- 

 tions. — European Knife. — Send up Rockets. — Native Wonder. — 

 Oomiaks' mimic Manoeuvres. — Esquimaux Family. — Whales. — 

 Herschel Island. — Wind shifts Suddenly. — Difficulties. — Calton 

 Point. — Esquimaux bring Fish. — Tracking. — Paradoxical Barrows. 

 — Land near Sabine Point. — Huts and Women. — Buy a Frock from 

 a Lady. — Thefts. — Compasses affected. — Approach to Mackenzie. 

 — Tracking up River. — Change in Vegetation. — Bear and Deer 

 Tracks. — Erect a Cross. — Indian Visitor. — Peel River.— Mr. Har- 

 disty visits us. — Proceed to Fort M'Pherson. — Changed Phase of 

 Existence. — Departure of Mr. PuUen. — Annual Despatch. — Indian 

 Paint and Decoration. — Loucheux or Quarrellere.— Rat Indians. — 

 Gluttony. — Indian Betrothals. — Forty Skins for One. — Indian 

 Currency. — Esquimaux and Indian Feiids • . . , . 251 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Horrible Esquimaux Attack. — Massacre of Loucheux. — Indian Bravery, 

 — Anatomical Research. — Five Commoners make one Chief. — 

 Mr. Peers' unsuccessful Mediation. — Indian instincts of Revenge. — 

 Indian Supplies. — ^Leave for Fort Norman. — Indian Guides. — 

 Followers dog us. — Enemy captures our Stores. — Enter Mac- 

 kenzie. — Guides quit us. — Dogs again. — Encamp. — Our Hut takes 

 Fire. — Pine Forests. — Ice-master frost-bitten. — Reach Fort Good 

 Hope. — Mr. Mc Beath; his kind Attentions. — Cent Sous Rapid. 

 — Bear River. — Bui-ning Banks. — Reach Fort Norman. — Mr. 

 Mc Kenzie ; his Hospitality. — Salteaux' Legend of the Deluge. — 

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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Gastronomy. — River Ice. — Ti-apping. — Start for Great Bear Lake. — 

 Cross the Mackenzie on the Ice. — Felling Trees to encamp. — 

 Raising the Wind. — Penetrate dense Forests. — Cross Lakes. — 

 Cranben'ies, &c. — Indian Hut. — Salmon Trout. — Summary Eject- 

 ment. — Slave Indians. — Indian Divorce. — Selling Wives. — Cannibal 

 Acquaintance. — Sir J. Franklin's Hut. —Dreadful Starvation. — 

 Eating an Orkney man. — Our Plut. — An airy Situation. — Occasional 

 House-warming. — Lots of Tin. — Fish and Fish with it. — Swamp 

 Tea. — Aurora. — Literary Destitution. — Novel burial of a Brother- 

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