INDEX 



497 



Thrush, the Alice's, 387-388; the 



hermit, 389. 

 Tides, 43-44, 68, 301. 

 Timber land, grants of, 172-173. 

 Torngat Range, 100-101, 109, 111. 

 Trappers, the, 226. 

 Trawl fishing for cod, 303-304. 

 Trees, along Hamilton River, 147, 



157. See Forests. 

 Trout, lake, 204-205. 

 Trout fishing, 46, 78; at Hamilton 



Inlet, 145-146; on upper Hamil- 

 ton River, 158. 

 Truck Act of 1831, 247 n. 

 Truck system of trade, effort to 



break up, 240, 247. 

 Tuberculosis, prevalence of, 178, 179, 



256-257. 



Tundra, defined, 410. 

 Turner, Lucius M., cited, 197, 198. 

 Typhoid fever, brought by Eskimos 



from Chicago Exposition, 179; 



anecdote concerning a patient 



with, 231. 

 Tyrrell, J. B., 259. 



Uinastikai, Indian food, 211-212. 

 Ukasiksalik (Davis Inlet), 11, 45, 181. 

 Urelia McKinnon, mission boat, 240. 



Vessels, of Northmen and of Colum- 

 bus, 3; hospital, 236 ff.; in 

 fisheries, 298-299, 318. 



Vikings, Labrador voyages of, 1-4. 



Vinland, 3, 4. 



Volcanic formations, 99 ff., 103. 



Voyages of the Cabots and Corte- 

 Reals, Biggar's, 7. 



Wallace, Dillon, 162-163. 



Walrus, killing off of, 362-363; 

 slight value of, to the white man, 

 363-364; size and habits, 364; 

 value to Eskimo, 364-365. 



Warblers, Tennessee and Wilson's, 

 387; common and black-poll, 

 388-389; Canadian and other 

 varieties, 389. 



Waswanipi Lake, derivation of name, 

 206. 



Water-birds, 381-385. 



West St. Modiste, cooperative store 

 at, 241. 



Whale factories, 358. 



Whale hunting, 358-360. 



Whale Island, 62. 



Whale River, the smaller, 199. 



Whales, physiology of, 352-354; 

 six species of, 354; sulphur- 

 bottom, 354-355; finback, 355; 

 humpback, 355-356; white, 356 ; 

 thresher, or killer, 356; the 

 grampus and porpoise, 357; 

 sperm, or cachalot, 357-358 ; the 

 narwhale, 358; food of, 358; 

 hunting and cutting up of, 358 

 361 ; figures of the industry, 361. 



Whitbourne, quoted, 84. 



Whitefish, in upper Hamilton River, 

 158; (labradoricus), taking the, 

 205. 



White Handkerchief, Cape, 44-45. 



Whiteway, Sir William, 290. 



Windigo, evil spirit, 223. 



Winokapau Lake, 149-150. 



Wolstenholme, Cape, 55. 



Wolves, with caribou herds, 215; 

 resemblance of Labrador dogs 

 to, 272-274 ; respect of, for man, 

 274. 



Women, life of Indian, 215-216. 



Wood, Francis H., 260 ff. 



Yachting, Labrador as a field for, 

 41-44. 



Zeno, Antonio, narrative of, 4-5. 

 Zoar, Moravian Mission station, 35. 



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