CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XXV. Crossing the Lake. Its Natural 



History 179 



The Japanese landscape about Great 



Slave Lake 182 



Dwarf spruce, about four feet high, on 



edge of the Barren-Grounds . . 182 



Forcing ice on the Great Slave Lake . 186 



The meal at the Lobstick, Pike's Port- 

 age 186 



XXVI. The Lynx at Bay 190 



Photographing a Lynx 192 



XXVII. The Last of that Indian Crew . . 193 



XXVIII. Geological Forces at Work . . . 197 



XXIX. Pike's Portage 200 



The Deathbirds, the Storm, and the 



Wolverine 200 



XXX. Caribou-Land at Last 204 



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XXXI. Good-bye to the Woods .... 213 



The giants on the edge of the forest . 216 

 An ancient dwarf about 250 years old. 



Billy ready for action .... 216 



XXXII. The Treeless Plains 219 



Tyrrell's Monument at Last Woods . 220 



The falls of the Casba River ... 220 



Spring migration of Caribou . . . 222 



