460 



INDEX 



work of breaking her up, 283, 

 28586 ; the wreck, 337 ; 

 illustrations, 7, 8, 20, 77, 88, 

 116, 132, 149, 150, i6o ; 284, 286 



Ducks, wild, 271 



Dunsmuir, Mr., 5 



Dutch Harbour, 31, 32 34 



EAST CAPE, 43 



Edwards, Mr. (mate), n, 27, 34,40, 

 48 



Eggs, salted, 52 



Ejakok, Eskimo boy, 142 43 



Ekajuak, Ned Erie's wife, 141, 145, 

 277, 281, 326 



Ellesmere Land, 438 



Elson Bay, 79, 82, 155, 34748 



Enterprise, H.M.S., 101 



Erie, H. T., 89 



Erie, Ned 



Expeditions to the mountains, 

 11819, 283, 325, 444 ; an 

 incident, 123 ; food left at 

 the cabin of, 133 ; the 

 Author's bargain with, 130 

 31, 135; his cabin, 139, 150 

 -51, 153, 281, 325, 44243 5 

 his fox traps, 140 41 ; his 

 family, 141, 142, 441 ; return 

 of the Author and Fiedler to 

 his cabin, 145 ; his advice, 

 148 ; welcomes the return of 

 the sledge expedition, 277 ; 

 leaves his family at Flaxman 

 Island, 282 



Eskimo legends, 1416, 128 



Eskimo names, 106, note 



Eskimo, the 



Characteristics Manner of 



trading, 3639, 5051, 376 



77 ; ambitions, 76 77 ; 



hospitality, 117 18, 152, 



34648, 355, 363 ; anxiety to 



learn, 142, 35253, 35657 5 



his estimation of a mile, 374 



Children Characteristics, 126 



30 ; a Christmas treat, 138 



Customs Native musicians, 



287 ; a native dance, 287 90 ; 

 death and burial, 317 18 ; 

 the Hula-Hula, 332 33 ; 

 card -playing, 348, 359, 366 ; 

 custom regarding the white 

 man's food, 359 ; praying for 

 blessings, 359, 365 ; advent of 

 Christmas, 377 



Religion Advent of the white 

 missionary, 75 ; religious 

 tendencies of, 350 ; super- 

 stitions, 452 53 

 Social Conditions 72 73, 451 ; 

 houses on St. Lawrence 

 Island, 7273, 451 ; evil 

 influence of the visits of the 

 whalers, 7375, 31012 ; 

 work of the Revenue Cutters, 

 75 76 ; tents, 124 ; food, 

 124 25, 451 ; want of clean- 

 liness, 126 27 ; life in the 

 summer, 287 90 ; interest in 

 the steamers, 304 ; life on 

 Herschel Island, 310 18 ; 

 disease among, 317 18, 321 

 22, 330, 451 55 ; the natives 

 of Pitt Point, 34647 ; cloth- 

 ing, 451 52 ; diminution of 

 the race, 455 



Woman Evil influence of the 

 whalers, 73 74, 31012; 

 her life, in, 327 28; the 

 wife's position in the house of 

 a white husband, 143 ; the 

 mother, 453 



Eskimo Town, 72 



Esquimalt (Duchess of Bedford 

 leaves), 2021 



Ester Creek, 416 



Evans, Mr., at Candle, 362, 381 



FAIRBANKS 



The Author starts for, 408, 412, 

 414 ; description of, 417 ; 

 fashionable life in, 418 ; 

 founding of, 418 19 ; hospi- 

 tality in, 419 20 ; mentioned, 

 7, 407, 412 



