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CLASSIFIED INDEX. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



Black flies, 66. 



Bread-making, novel method of, 75. 



Breeding-place of wild geese, 102. 



Buffalo trails, ancient, 13. 



Cacheing our supplies, 200. 



Cairn of rocks built, 90, 95, 180. 



Camp in the woods, 222-3. 



Canadian, an old-time, 247. [173. 



Canadian Geological Survey, 7, 37, 70, 74, 



Canadian Pacific Railway, 12, 13. 



Canoe race with Indians, 20. 



Canoes secured, 9. 



Corrigal meets with accident, 66. 



Crossing Nelson River, 236-8. 



Crippled, 220. 



Deer vs. canoe, a race, 85. 



Desperate situation, 203. 



Dog-sleds, 219. 



Dried fish and seal-oil, 238. 



Dysentery, 201. 



Encounter with polar bears. 189-90, 192-5, 

 218. 



Encounter with wolves, 98. 



Eskimos, bartering with, 107, 123, 175. 



Eskimos first met with, 105. 



Eskimos, photographing, 120. 



Eskimo, appearance of, 127-8 ; clothing, 

 128-9 ; tattooing, 129 ; cheek-stones, 

 129 ; origin of, 130 ; range of, 130 ; 

 temperament, 132, 161, 164 ; feast, 

 132-3 ; dwellings, 135-9 ; ingenuity, 

 139 ; implements, 139 ; kyack, 141 ; 

 oomiack, 142 ; komitick, 143 ; dog- 

 whip, 144 ; sleeping-bag, 145 ; cus- 

 toms, 147-171 ; weapons, 147, 153-5, 

 160 ; seal-hunting, 149-153 ; walrus- 

 hunting, 155-8; polar bear-hunting, 

 158-9 ; hunting birds, 159-60 ; fishing, 

 160-1 ; trapping, 161 ; amusements, 

 162-4 ; marriages, 165 ; religious be- 

 liefs and ceremonies, 165-9 ; laws, 

 169-70 ; legends, 170 ; burials, 171 ; 

 vocabularj', 273. 



Famine at Fort McMurray, 42-3. 



Feeding dogs at H. B. Co.'s posts, 51. 



Finding Eskimo cache, 109. 



First camp, 21. 



First rapid, 23. 



Flora, collecting, 70. 



Forest, limit of, 83. 



Francois' chase of wolverine, 99, loo-l. 



Francois' tug-of-war, 237-8 



French missionaries returning, 59. 



Fur trade, new conditions in, 241. 



Gale on Lake Tobaunt, 102. 



Glaciers, 81. 



Grahame, steamer 28, 45, 46, 52, 55. 



Grove of spruce, isolated, !)(). 



Guide procured, 53. 



Guide deserts us, 62-4. 



llistori.- ruins, 210, 215-17. 



Hudson's Bay Company, !>, 12, et sefj. 



Icefields on Lake Tobaimt. \H\-<. 

 Ice, massive walls of, 22. 



Ice-pack, all night in an, 202. 



Indians: Cliippe\vv:in, 7, :!2, 40, 4s, 221 : 



Owe, 29, 10, 4;;. 219,280; iro.,u,,N. :. 



Inventory of our supplies, 54. 



Indian camps, 77, 227, 230 ; dance, 32 ; 

 log-houses, 64 ; maps, 8 ; tepee, 227 ; 

 tradition, 69 ; types of, 18. 



Iroquois, craftiness of our, 71. 



Kyack vs. canoe, a race. 1 20. 



Last trees seen, 93. 



Louis crippled, 249. 



Louis shoots polar bear, 1 89-90. 



Low temperature, 245, 247. 



Mathematical instruments provided, 10. 



Meeting an old shipmate, 45. 



Michel's feet frozen, 202. 



Michel left at York Factory, 242. 



Missionaries, hospitable, 211. 



Moose hunt, 24. 



Moss-bogs, 81. 



Moss fuel, 101. 



Mountain of iron ore, 60. 



Musk-ox robes, 122, 123. 



Musquito torments, 55, 66. 



Nailing up the flag of Canada, 79. 



Names carved on rocks, 215. 



Navigation of Athabasca River, 2(.i-2s. 



Navigation of Telzoa River, 173. 



North-West Mounted Police, 2<>: ban- 

 queted by, 28. 



Our only seal shot, 203. 



Our party separates, 248. 



Parting with civilization, 70. 



Perilous situation, 236. 1 13 



Picturesque scenery, 14, 19, 21-2, 46, 112- 



Plants collected, list cf, 251-72. 



Pierre exhausted, 204. 



Poisoned by polar bear liver, 192. 



Portaging, an achievement in, 71. 



Prairie travel, 15-17. 



Provisions exhausted, 234. 



Reaching tide water, 1 76. 



Red River cart trail, ancient, 244. 



Relief party from Churchill, 2n<>. 



Remarkable island, 92. 



Rich mineral district, 173. 



Running the Grand Rapids, 33-35. 



Sand formations, curious, 80-1, '.)!. 



Seventeen hours in ice-water, 203. 



Shooting pike with revolver, 58. 



Snow-blindness, 134. 



Snow-goggles, 135. 



Snow.shoes, 221 ; practice with, 21">. 



Snow in August, <><>. 



Solitary grave, (M), 7.">. 



Starving Cree ramp, 44. 



Stone pillars, 113. 



Storm on Baker Lake, 1 7.">. 



Storm on the Telzoa, 116. 



Struggle with shore-ice. l!t<.-2o:;. 



Tar wells, curious, 37. 



Teepee remains, ancient, !>2. 



Travelling by carryall, 248-9. 



Visit to Kskinio camp, 118. 



Visit to Kskinio village, 122. 

 I Water-spouts on Daly Lake, >o. 



Welcome ablutions, 240. 



Whale-boat on Chesterfield Inlet, 177. 



Winter sets in, I'.MI. 



Without food or fuel, 187. 



W.MM! VioletS, !>0. 



Wrigleij, steamer, 28, 46. 



