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INDEX 



Bess-hath or crooked knife (ill.), 

 146. 



Beverley Falls, 186. 



Bezkya, Old (Indian): and the 

 pills, 83-85. 



Bezkya Fran9ois, ovir guide, 116; 

 good shot, 127; rebels, 130, 

 133; kills a Moose, 131-2; 

 scouts for Buffalo, 134; spares 

 a Bear, 135; kills a Beaver, 

 138, 141. 



Birch bark vessels (ill.), 142. 



Birch split by landslide (ill.), 

 198. 



Blackflies, 201. 



Blackfoot Lodge (ill.), 135. 



Boas, Franz, on Eskimo census, 

 261. 



Bog-lemming record, 34. 



Bohemian Waxwing or Chatterer: 

 nest and eggs, 82; flocks of, 140, 

 301. 



Brayno, a trapper, 278. 



Buffalo: in Manitoba, 7; on Great 

 Slave Lake, 36; conference with 

 Indians, 36-37, 38; and Wolves, 

 38, 39; skeleton, 44; tracks, 45, 

 (ill.) 47; herd of, 47, (iU.) 48, 

 52; wallows (ill.), 52; second 

 hunt for, 75; herds of, map by 

 Pierre Squirrel, 79; third hunt 

 for, 116; river, map of, 124; 

 tracks on Nyarling, 134. 



Buffelhead Duck, very small, 140- 

 141. 



Cache, my provisions, 200. 

 Calm Bay: (ill.) 214; arrive at, 



223. 

 Calypso, on Et-then Island, 265. 

 Camp-fire Club, 236. 

 Canoe speed: 204, 266; feels the 



bottom, 274. 

 Canyon of Athabaska: (ill.) 20; 



(ill.) 21. 

 Caribou: trails, 202; first, 206; 



travelsome, 209; foot-click, 209, 



256; bands, 219; swimming 



speed, 220; mmibers, 220; 

 broken-legged, 224; and nose- 

 worms, 238; take to water, 248; 

 foot (ill.), 254; foot (ill.), 256; 

 sly old buck, 255; horns (ill.), 

 256; antlers clean, 257; num- 

 bers, 258; numbers killed, 261; 

 not in danger of extinction, 262; 

 horns (ill.), 262; migration 

 erratic, 208, 264. 



Casba: Lake map, 207; River, 

 219 



Chief Snuff, 144, 145. 



Chief Vital, 185. 



Chief WilUam's letter (ill.), 154, 



Chipewyans: character, 144, 147; 

 dwindling, 148; words and ac- 

 cent, 148-9; t«epee (ill.), 149, 

 150; poor boatmen, 150; hunt- 

 ing law, 150-1; paddle (ill.), 

 150; canoe (ill.), 151;- Dogrib 

 canoe (ill.), 151; religion, 151, 

 153; cannot swim, 152; whis- 

 key, 152; physique, 153; poor 

 shots, 153; read and write, 153- 

 158; inscription (ill.), 154; 

 syllabic (ill.), 155; syllabic rec- 

 ord (ill.), 158. 



Chipmimk, de-tailed by Coyote, 

 304. 



Clairvoyant Indians, 57, 58, 59. 



Clinton-Colden Lake: explored, 

 223; map of, 229. 



Cloudberry, 242, (ill.) 243. 



Conical Butte important land- 

 mark in Clinton-Colden, 223. 



Cornus canadensis (ill.), 118; (ill.) 

 138. 



Cougar or Puma far north record, 

 56. 



Cranberry (ill.), 76; (iU.) 121. 



Crane: diet of, 127; voice of, 279. 



Cree, syllabic (ill.), 156. 



Dawn, rosy, ominous, 276. 

 Delta of Slave River, 198. 

 Dog: Freesay's, 169; toggle (ill.), 

 168. 



