INDEX 



491 





traits, 273-281; destruction of 

 eggs and young birds by, 378. 



Dog-teams, 183. 



Drunkenness, absence of, 176. 



Duck, season for shooting, 78-79; 

 breeding habits of, 384 ; the Lab- 

 rador or pied, 374-375. 



Duties on fish imported into foreign 

 countries, 323-324. 



Eagle River, salmon fishing on, 333. 



Eclipse Channel, 59. 



Education, problem of, 174-175. 



Egging, 376-377. 



Eider-duck Islands, 60. 



Eider ducks, 60, 384-385. 



Elliot, Henry, 363, 364. 



Emergency foods, 422. 



English, engaged in early fisheries, 

 14; conquest of Canada by, and 

 effect on Labrador, 22-28. 



Ericson, Leif, 3. 



Eskimos, Moravian missionaries and 

 the, 33-36; places for best 

 study of, 47-48; best educated 

 people in Labrador, 175; diseases 

 among, 179, 229, 230; lessening 

 numbers of, 229, 232-233 ; cause 

 of decrease in numbers of, found 

 in lessening numbers of seal and 

 walrus, 361-363. See Indians. 



Estotiland, legend of, 4-5. 



Etienne family of Indians, 202-203. 



Factors, in Hudson's Bay Company 

 service, 183. 



Fanny's Harbour, 45. 



Fernandes, Joao, 10. 



Finback whales, 355. 



Fiords of Labrador, 39, 55, 57. 



Fisheries, Labrador, 12-14, 282 ff.; 

 cod, seal, salmon, and porpoise, 

 20 ; establishment of sedentary, 

 by English, and troubles caused 

 by, 23-24; troubles with foreign 

 nations over, 30 ; business firms 

 interested in, 180; of interior, 

 204-207; cod, 282-327; salmon, 

 328-339; herring, 340-345; hali- 

 but, 345-347; dab, 347-348; 



winter fluke, 348; lump-fish 

 348-349; sculpin, 349; rock 

 cod, 349 ; hake or haddock, 350 ; 

 shark, 350-351; whale, 352- 

 361; walrus, 362-365. 



Fishing, on upper Hamilton River, 

 158. 



Fishing customs along the coast, 165- 

 169. 



Fiske, John, quoted, 5. 



Flies varieties of, 84, 427 ff. 



Flora of Labrador, 391 ff . 



Flour Lake, 155. 



Flower's Cove, cooperative store at, 

 241. 



Fluke, the winter, 348. 



Flycatchers, varieties of, 389. 



Fog, mistake concerning prevalence 

 of, 70. 



Food of Indians, 211-215. 



Ford, Chesley, 442. 



Ford, George, 60, 442. 



Forest fires, disastrous effect of, on 

 game resources, 191192. 



Forest growth, Hamilton River 

 region, 147. 



Forests, Dr. Low's description of, 407- 

 409. 



Forteau Bay, 27. 



Four Peaks, the, 102. 



Fox farm, establishment of, 242. 



Fox sparrow, the, 387. 



France, encouragement of home fish- 

 eries by, 323-324. 



Fraser, James D., 183. 



Freels, Cape, 8-9. 



French, depredations by naval vessels 

 of the, 28; agreement of tem- 

 perament of, with the Indian, 

 194. 



French Canadian settlements, 14-22. 



French fishermen, early, 13-14. 



French shore, the, 14. 



Frobisher, Martin, voyage of, 11. 



Fungi of Labrador, 421-422. 



Furs, months for taking, 75-76. 



Fur trade, 181. 



Geology of northeast coast, 81-139. 

 George, Lake of the, 213. 



