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INDEX. 



Crow Wing, distance from Fort Garry to 

 ii. 83. 



■ ■ Author arrives with his party at, ii. 



98. 



Crow Wing River, 261, 262. 

 Cumberland House, main Saskatchewan, i. 

 446, 449. 



Mr. M'Gillivray, i. 446. 



kindness of Mr. Stewart, chief trader, 



i. 447. 



description of the country round, i. 



447, 448. 



garden at, i. 448. 



weather at, i. 449. 



Cumberland, description of, i. 447, 448. 

 Current River, described, i. 30. 



. falls of the, i. 42. 



fish and fruit of, i. 43, note. 



Customs, Indian, ii. 120, et seq. 

 Cut-arm Creek, Little ( Kiskipittonawe 

 sepesis), i. 376, 423. 



■ Big (or Kichekiskapettonano sepesis), 



Qu'appelle River, i. 377. 



Dakotah, boundaries of the new territory 



of, ii. 169. 

 Dakotah Indians. See Sioux. 

 Dance of Indians of the Kaministiquia 



Valley, i. 33. 

 in an Indian village on Leech Lake, 



ii. 99. 



Dancing Point of the Grand Coteau, i. 

 335. 



medicine ceremonies celebrated there, 



i. 335. 



Dauphin Lake, area of, i. 237, 241 ; ii. 49. 



its elevation, ii. 49- 



pike caught in the, ii. 49, 59. 



journey from, to the Riding Mountain, 



ii. 50. 



swamps, ridges, and bogs, near the 



lake. ii. 61. 

 Dauphin Lake Ridge, ancient beach of, ii. 

 260. 



Dauphin, or Valley, River, i. 241 ; ii. 48. 

 Dawson, Mr. S., his report on the soil of 

 the banks of Rainy River quoted, i. 84. 



his illness, i. 115. 



■ left at Islington Mission, i. 115. 



— his description of the valley of Swan 



River, i. 433. 

 route proposed by, from Canada to 



Red River, ii. 214. 

 Decharges des Paresseux, i. 34. 

 Deer, numbers of, on the banks of the 



Souris River, i. 290. 

 Deer Island, Lake Winnipeg, ii. 12. 



section of, ii. 12, 13. 



De Meurons, the, taken to Red River Settle- 

 ments, i. 174. 



Denudation of country about Riding Moun- 

 tain, ii. 56. 



effects of, in the basin of Lake Win- 

 nipeg, ii. 265. 



parallelism of bold limits of denuda- 

 tion, ii. 266. 



Grand Coteau de Missouri, ii. 266. 



Niagara limestone escarpment of New 



York and Canada, ii. 266. 



Riding and Duck Mountains, pro- 

 bable common origin of, ii. 266. 



Depressions, circular, in the basin of Lake 

 Winnipeg, ii. 265. 



character of, ii. 265. 



Desert, the great American, ii. 233, 234. 



Deux Rivieres, i. 256. 



Portage des, i. 67. . 



Devil's Hills, Assinniboine River, i. 287. 



Devil's Lake, i. 414. 



Devonian series, in the basin of Lake 



Winnipeg, ii. 291 . 



salt springs, ii. 291, 292. 



salt springs in Rupert's Land, ii. 293. 



manufacture of salt, and salt trade of 



the United States, ii. 293, 294. 

 fossils from Devonian rocks in the 



Winnipeg basin, ii. 296. 



on the shores of Lake Manito- 



bah, ii. 38, 39. 



found on Manitobah Island, ii. 



70. 



Dews in the country north of the Qu'ap- 

 pelle River, i. 517. 



in the Touchwood Hills, i. 422. 



Dickinson, Mr., his description of the 

 country east of Red River, i. 166. 



his narrative, i. 368, et seq. 



his exploration of the country be- 

 tween the Lake of the Woods and 

 the Red River, ii. 4. 



Dislocations, effects of, in the basin of Lake 

 Winnipeg, ii. 266. 



table of the probable effects produced 



by some dislocations, ii. 267. 



Dog, the, considered as a source of wealth 

 amongst the Indians, ii. 117. 



their uses, ii. 117. 



their midnight howl, ii. 118. 



dog feasts, ii. 118, 119. 



hydrophobia, ii. 118. 



dogs at the Hudson Bay Posts, ii. 118. 



their ability to go without food for a 



long period, ii. 118. 



their voracity, ii. 119. 



sacrifices of some tribes, ii. 119. 



carioles, winter travelling with, de- 

 scribed, ii. 84. 



■ daily allowance of the dogs, ii. 85. 



difficulties of this mode of travelling, 



ii. 84. 



