CONTENTS. vii 



PAGE 



CHAPTER XL 



WINTER SCENES AND AMUSEMENTS. 



New Year's day — How to walk on rackets — " Fish, dogs, and 

 seal," the general topics of conversation — Obtaining skeletons 



— Larch poultices — "Small talk" — Low temperature — Deer 

 stories — Trapping — Indians — Up the river — At the mission 



— Harnessing the puppies — A racket walk ... 172-190 



CHAPTER Xn. 



OLD FORT TO l'aNSE AMOUR. 



80° in winter — Trip eastward — Starting — Esquimaux river^ and 

 island — Salmon bay — Bradore bay — Caribou island — Five 

 leagues — Middle bay — Belles Amour — Over Bradore hills — 

 L'Anse Dunes — Blanc Sablon — LAnse Coteau — LAnse 

 Clair — Forteau — Amour 191-213 



CHAPTER XHL 



A TRAMPING EXPEDITION. 



Canadian porcupine — Picking fall berries in spring — Carrying 

 wood to summer quarters — Anticipating Fourth of July — Sum- 

 mer quarters in winter — Capsized — Fox hunt on rackets — A 

 mile of soft snow without rackets ..... 214-220 



CHAPTER XIV. 



MOVING OUT. 



Preparing the summer house to live in — Moving out — A spring 

 rescue — Seals on ice — Larks — A home scene — Spring duck 

 shooting — Repairing the boats — Visit to the Indians — Indian 

 canoes — Netting nets — Labrador mail — Natural scenery of 

 Labrador — Repairing canoes — Visit to Esquimaux graves — 

 Ornithological notes -..-.... 221-238 



CHAPTER XV. 



FROM BLANC SABLON TO MINGAN. 



Blanc Sablon again — Northern Hmits of the bittern — Return along 

 the coast of Natashquan — Spring scene in Red bay — Other 

 places — St. Mary islands — Cormorants — At Natashquan — 

 Rambles about the place — Appearance of the birds — The 

 dark day — Arrival at Mingan 239-253 



