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INDEX 



Indian pilot: (ill.), 9; broken foot, 

 16; Sabbatarians, 19; grati- 

 tude, 21-22; clairvoyant, 57, 

 58, 59; heroic, 59, 60; sickness, 

 89, 93, 94; spoiled, 144; and 

 dogs, 164, 168; my worthless 

 crew of, 169-196; tolling Loons, 

 172; politeness, 183; village, 

 Indian Mountain River, 188; 

 census of, 259-60; destruction 

 of Caribou, 260; many drowned, 

 266; hunting laws, 150-1, 278; 

 prefer black clothing, 282; sum- 

 mer, 299. 



Islands best for small mammals, 

 249. 



JACK FROST, 213. 



Jackpine bough (ill.), 199. 



Jarvis, Major A. M., 6, 36, etc., 76. 



Jesuits, 154. 



Jiarobia or Elzear Robillard: 279, 

 etc.; first meeting with, 281; 

 his wife, 281; his humor, 282; 

 hand trick (ill.), 283; incred- 

 ible tale, 284; saves my stuff, 

 290-5; saves my journals, 294- 

 5; saves my guns, 296-7. 



Jones, Col. C. J. (Buffalo) on Cari- 

 bou: 258; his shanty in 1897, 

 263; his Wolves, 263; his fire- 

 place (ill.), 267. 



Jones, E. Sprake, on Caribou killed 

 by whalers, 260. 



Journals lost, 290-5. 



Joy of seeing wild life, 226-7. 



Juniperus nana: (ill.), 81; sabina 

 (ill.), 138. 



KAHDINOUAY ISLAND, 266. 



Kennicott, Robert on Indian cen- 

 sus, 259. 



Killing mania, 20, 172. 



Kingbird, North record, 140. 



Kirma, 36, 39. 



Kiya, 36, 38, 39; Kiya's white 

 horse, 75. 



Klondikers, 24, 25. 



LAP-LONGSPURS ABOUND: 224; 

 killed by Skua, 247-8. 



Last Woods: 206; leaving, 219. 



Laurier River, 223. 



Ledum groenlandicum (ill.), 

 139. 



Lichens, kinds (ill.), 240, (ill.) 

 241. 



Linnea (ill.), 78, (ill.) 120. 



Little Buffalo River: 80, (ill.) 117; 

 beauty of, 120-124. 



Lobsticks: (ill.), 17; my, 175; (ill.) 

 176. 



Lockhart's River, 230; my monu- 

 ment at (ill.), 230. 



Loons called by Indians, 172; 

 caterwauling, 211; abound, 

 224. 



Lost, the time I got (map), 46, 50, 

 51. 



Loutit, Geo., strong man, brother 

 of Billy, 153. 



Loutit, Wm. C.: my cook, 26; 

 goes after Moose, 131; makes 

 my lobstick, 175; steady work- 

 er, 178-201; his lake, 202; dis- 

 turbed by Caribou, 220; goes 

 to market, 221; goes 8 miles 

 for wood, 247; catches Wiska- 

 jons, 265; his bird springle 

 (ill.), 268; his home at Chipe- 

 wyan, 277; saves my stuff, 290; 

 saves the canoe again, 298. 



Lynx: and House Cat, 13; on bank 

 escapes, 23; starving, 32, 35, 

 98; killed (ill.), 31; female (ill.), 

 34; numbers, 11, 97; and Rab- 

 bits, 97; mating, 99; killing 

 Foxes, 99; killing Beaver, 100; 

 killing Caribou, 100; curiosity, 

 101; slow, 101; how hunted, 

 102; diagram of fluctuations, 

 105, 108; scolded by Red- 

 squirrels, 127; the much photo- 

 graphed, 190-2; on the plains, 

 211; tracks (ill.), 274; swim- 

 ming, 275; dead of hunger, 304; 

 do not eat fruit, 304. 



