INDEX 
Acadians, settlement of, in Labrador, 
31. 
Alaska, introduction of reindeer into, 
252-253. 
Albert, Mission yawl, 236, 237, 238. 
Alexis River, 8. 
Allen, Dr. Glover M., 378 n., 469. 
Anglican church mission, 236. 
Anglo-Newfoundland Company, 180. 
Angora goats, importation of, 243. 
Ants, 435. 
Archean rock formations, 
Ashuanipi River, 156—157. 
Ashwanipi Lake, derivation of name, 
85-86. 
206. 
Aspen buds and bark as an emer- 
gency food, 422. 
Attikonak one and Lake, 156-157. 
Audubon in Labrador, 374, 375, 376, 
386. 
Auk, extinction of the, 374; 
razor-billed, 382-383. 
Aulatzevik, island of, 59, 93. 
Avagalik Island, 62. 
the 
Bache, Mount, 58. 
Baine, Johnston & Company, 180. 
Bait for cod fishing, 302-303. 
Barren-ground People and River, 
198. 
Bartlett, Captain, 302. 
Basement Complex, the, 86 ff. 
Basque fishermen in Labrador, 13; 
relics of, 164. 
Bastian, John, 187, 206—207. 
Battle Harbour, Anglican church 
mission headquarters at, 236; 
mission hospital at, 238, 239 ff. 
Bear-hunting, 47, 145, 213. 
Bear Island, 130. 
Beaver-hunting, 204. 
Beetles, 441-446. 
Beeton, Mayson, 260. 
Bell, Dr. Robert, quoted, 123-124. 
Belle Isle, Strait of, 7, 8, 27. 
Beothuk Indians, 25. 
Berries, varieties of, 212-213, 421. 
Bersimis, 189; trading-station at, 
193; canoes of, 207. 
Bersimis, Long Portage of the, 191. 
Biggar, H. P., work by, cited, 7. 
Birds of Labrador, 374-390, 469-— 
479. 
Bishop’s Mitre, the, 108. 
Bissot, Frangois, 17. 
Blane Sablon, 27, 29; fishery of, 165. 
Blandford, Captain Sam, 165. 
Blow-me-down, Mount, 98. 
Boston Transcript reindeer fund, 260. 
Botany of Labrador, 391 ff. 
Botflies on deer, 256, 429-430. 
Boulders, glacial, 130. 
Bounty system in French fisheries, 
323-324. 
Bourdon, Jean, 12. 
Bowdoin Canyon, Hamilton River, 
153-155. 
Bowring Brothers, firm of, 304. 
Bradore Bay, 21. 
Brave expedition, 81-138. 
Brest, harbour of, 13, 14; 
accounts of, 15-17. 
Brigs and brigantines in fishing in- 
dustry, 318. 
Brouague, Martel de, 21. 
“‘Bultows,” 303. 
Burial-places, Indian, 159, 225. 
Business firms conducting trade with 
Labrador, 179-180. 
Butterflies, 435-436. 
early 
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