viii CONTENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Camp on the Great Slave River 20 

 The Hudson's Bay Company convoy 



descending the Athabaska River . 24 



Grand Rapids, Athabaska River . . 24 



IV. Down the Silent River with the 



Mounted Police 26 



The love-song of the Richardson Owl . 30 



V. A Conference with the Chiefs . . 36 



VI. Out with Sousi Beaulieu .... 40 



VII. The Buffalo Hunt 44 



Bear-claw marks on tree .... 44 



The Buffalo herd disappearing in brush 48 



VIII. Thomas Anderson 54 



Thomas Anderson, Smith Landing, 



June 11, 1907 54 



Murdo Mackay, June 9, 1907 . . . 54 



IX. Mosquitoes 61 



X. A Bad Case 70 



XL The Second Buffalo Hunt ... 75 



The Athabaska Rose or Needle Bloom 76 

 Pierre Squirrel, Chief of the Chipew- 



yans 76 



XII. Bezkya and the Pills 83 



