Engineering, i39-'5- 



Erosion, checked by beaver, 214, 217, 



218. 



Errors, 67, 68. 

 Estes Park, 179. 

 Europe, the beaver in, 40, 41. 

 Exploration, 168, 169. 

 Eyesight, 8. 



Fabulous accounts, 53. 



Feet, uses of, 5, 6 ; form of, 8. 



Feigning injury, 25, 26. 



Felling trees. See Cutting trees. 



Fence posts, 30. 



Fighting, 19, 20, 34, 35. 



Fire, 158-163. 



Fish, water-holes for, 214. 



Flat-top, a beaver pioneer, 175, 176, 



'83-I93- 

 Floods, 206, 207 ; damage prevented by 



beaver, 214, 216. 

 Food, 10, 84, 205. 



Food-piles, 12, 13, 88, 89, 97, 150, 169. 

 Fossil beaver, 40. 

 Fox, 199. 

 Fruit trees, 30. 



Geographical distribution, 40-42, 49, 50. 



Gold, 218. 



Grand CaSon, 25, 50. 



Hands, uses of, 5 ; form of, 8. 



Harvest, a year's, 97 ; a large, 169. 



Harvest-gathering, 83-98,148-150,157, 

 158. 



Hearing, 8. 



Hearne, Samuel, quoted, 53. 



History, the beaver in, 41-44. 



Homesteader, a friendly, 190-193. 



Houses, building, 3 ; occupants, 21 ; di- 

 mensions, 86, 119, 120, 130, 131 ; 

 mud plastering, 97, 123-125; con- 

 struction, 119-123, 130, 131; en- 



trances, 119, 120; situation, 120, 

 125-127; burrows a substitute for, 

 127, 128; a typical house, 130, 131; 

 ventilation, 132; enlargement, 160- 

 171; security, 197, 198; shaped to 

 meet floods, 207. 

 Hudson's Bay Company, the, 48. 



Ice, a trouble of beaver existence, 126, 

 127; a catastrophe caused by, 184- 

 186 ; on the pond, 200, 202-206 ; 

 casualties caused by, 207. 



Indians, their legends about the beaver, 

 39- 



Individuality, 35, 67. 



Industry, 36. 



Intelligence, 46, 57-60. 



Irrigation-ditches, 31. 



Island Colony, harvesting methods of, 

 92, 93- 



Jefferson River, n, 78, 107, 108. 



Kingsford, William, his History of 

 Canada, 48. 



Land, beaver seen on, 191, 192. 



Leadership, 20. 



Legends, 39. 



Lewis and Clark, 42. 



Life, the beaver's, 14-16. 



Lily Lake, beaver at, 101-105 5 beaver 

 house at, 119 ; the pioneer beaver of, 

 175-193 ; description of, 178. 



Lily Mountain, 182. 



Lion, mountain, 160-162, 166. 



Local attachment, 141, 142. 



Long, Stephen Harriman, his Journal, 



33- 

 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, his 



Hiawatha quoted, 60, 6l. 

 Long's Peak, 140, 153. 

 Love ditty, 27. 



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