INDEX 
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, 4-5. 
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; 
491 
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, 427 ff. 
Flora of Labrador, 391 ff. 
Flour Lake, 155. 
Flower’s Cove, cooperative store at, 
241. 
Fluke, the winter, 348. 
Flyeatchers, varieties of, 389. 
Fog, mistake concerning prevalence 
of, 70. 
Food of Indians, 211-215. 
Ford, Chesley, 442. 
Ford, George, 60, 442. 
Forest fires, disastrous effect of, on 
game resources, 191-192. 
Forest growth, Hamilton 
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. 
Fraser, 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. 
River 
Geology of northeast coast, 81-139. 
George, Lake of the, 213. 
