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Of the bush berries there are : 



Blueberry (kiyu'tayi'^nuk), Vaccinium Pennsylvanium 

 Indian pear (aqpiwyuk), Amelanchier Canadensis. 

 Dewberry (po'ynuk), Rubus articus. 

 Dogberry (kimvnau'yuk), Ribes Cynosbati. 

 Squashberry (co^naxa'tik}, Viburnum pauciflorum. 

 Wild cherry, Prunus pennsylvanica. 



The creeper and plant varieties are legion : 



Shrub blueberry (Duckberry), Vaccinium uliginosum. 

 Ground blueberry (siyatuk), Vaccinium caespitosum. 

 Cracker berry or froth-berry (qa'qtaliK). 

 Baked-apple (a'kpik), Rubus Chaemomous. 

 Marsh-berry (turjuyu'paluk). 

 Maidenhair-berry (mama'qtu'lik}. 

 Wild strawberry (a-riti'rjatuk) Fragaria virginiana. 

 Cranberry (kimimino'k), Vaccinium vitis-Idaea. 

 Crowberry, Empetrum nigrum. 

 Foxberry (porjno'yuk). 

 Partridgeberry (kiminu'k). 

 Blackberry (paugnatwi'nuk}. 



A favourite dish of the Labrador Eskimo is the eu'valik, 

 a combination of salmon spawn and blueberries and seal fat. 

 The cranberry and blueberry are staple foods of the natives. 

 The crowberry, which is not so well flavoured, is eaten when 

 blueberries are scarce. The natives also distinguish several 

 varieties of blueberries and blackberries as to colour and shape, 

 and name a white blueberry and blackberry besides those given 

 above, also a pear-shaped blueberry. These distinctions may 

 be due only to seasonal changes, but go to show what sharp 

 observers of natural phenomena the Eskimo are. The salmon- 

 berry, common in Alaska, appears to be identified here with the 

 partridge-berry. 



Chief among the berries is the baked-apple (a'kpik), also 

 called the cloudberry. Its four-petalled white blossoms are 

 seen covering the hillsides and swamps almost as soon as the 

 snow is gone, By the last of August the berry is formed. It is 

 often eaten earlier, while green, by the native children, just 

 as white children love to devour green apples. The cranberry 

 is found principally about Hamilton river, but grows as far 



