INDEX 



523 



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-. 



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, 453 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, 468. 



Ford, George, 60, 468. 



Forest fires, disastrous effect of, on 

 game resources, 191-192. 



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. 



Eraser, 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. 



