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INDEX. 



Elbow Bone Creek, Qu'appelle River, i. 

 138. 



Elbow Bone Creek (Souris Forks), country 



between it and the Grand Forks, i. 335. 

 Elk on the Assinniboine River, i. 285. 

 Ellice, Fort, Assinniboine River, i. 137, 138. 



■ view of, i. 310. 



account of, i. 311. 



. frequency of thunderstorms at, i. 312. 



scourge of grasshoppers at, i. 312. 



Elm trees near Lake Winnipego-sis, ii. 49. 

 Embarras River, i. 22. 



Erie, Lake, variations in the lead of the wa- 

 ters of the, i. 1 8. 

 Ermine Point, Winnipego-sis Lake, ii. 42. 

 Erratics in the plateau of the Assinniboine 



River, i. 309. 

 See Boulders. 



Esquimaux, territory inhabited by the, ii. 

 180. 



Eyebrow Hills, i. 238, 347, 348. 



• valleys, lakes, and ponds of the, i. 238. 



buffalo on the, i. 348. 



streamlet from the, to the Qu'appelle 



valley, i. 352. 

 section of the bank of this streamlet, i. 



355. 



cretaceous rocks of the, i. 354. 



continuation of the, i. 409. 



Falls, Coal, North Branch of the Saskatche- 

 wan, i. 396. 

 Fairford, Partridge Crop River, i. 24 1 ; ii. 

 35. 



character of the country at, ii. 36. 



the mission at, ii. 36, 37. 



Hudson's Bay Company's post at, ii. 



38. 



Falls, Ka-ka-beka, i. 30, 32, 35. 



second, of the Kaministiquia, i. 38. 



great, of Little Dog River, i. 41, 42. 



of Current River, i. 42. 



of Seine River, i. 62. 



of Sturgeon Lake, i. 69. 



Chaudiere, i. 81. 



at Rat Portage, i. 105. 



James's, i. 115. 



of the Portage du Bois, i. 116. 



Point aux Chiens, i. 116. 



Slave, i. 116, 117. 



Barriere, i. 116. 



Otter, i. 117. 



Silver, i. 120. 



Farm at. the Indian Mission of Red River 



Settlement described, i. 203. 

 File Hill, i. 421. 



■ aspen forests of the, i. 245. 



soil of, i. 421, 422. 



Fire Steel River, i. 62. 



Fire in the prairies, grandeur of the, i. 336. 



Fire, as an Indian sign, i. 336. 



effects of, on the north bank of the 



Qu'appelle River, i. 372. 



effects of, i. 405. 



Fish of the Current River, i, 43, note. 



of the Kaministiquia River, i. 55. 



of the Lake of the Woods, i. 96, 104. 



of the Assinniboine River, i. 282. 



of Lake Manitobah, i. 282. 



of the Qu'appelle Lakes, excellence of 



the, i. 321. 



quantity and quality of, in the First 



Fishing Lake of the Qu'appelle, i. 

 370. 



in the Lakes near the Touchwood Hills 



Fort, i. 414. 



in Long Lake, i. 415. 



abundance of, in the Little Saskatche- 

 wan, i. 437, 484 ; ii. 26. 



of Little White Mud River, i. 439. 



in the Saskatchewan, i. 451. 



Indian mode of catching, i. 484. 



large numbers of, in Pike or Jack- 

 Fish River, i. 490. 



of Lake Winnipeg, ii. 14. 



pounded, as a substitute for pemmican, 



ii. 28. 



caught in Dauphin Lake, ii. 49, 59. 



of Manitobah Lake, ii. 67. 



mode of curing, ii. 67. 



importance of the white-fish fishery of 



Lake Manitobah, ii. 68. 

 Fisher Bay, Lake Winnipeg, i. 485; ii. 19. 

 Fisher Bay Islands, Lake Winnipeg, ii. 19. 

 Fishing grounds on the Winnipeg River, i. 

 115. 



of the Indians on Lake Winnipeg, ii. 



14. 



lakes of the Qu'appelle River, i. 321. 



white fish of the, i. 321. 



depth of the, i. 324, 327. 



profusion of confervae in the, i. 327. 



vegetation on the banks of the, i. 327. 



gulls on the, i. 327. 



the lakes probably once united, i. 328. 



geese and pelicans on the, i. 328. 



Fishing Lake, Second, of the Qu'appelle 

 Valley, i. 368. 



length, breadth, and depth of, i. 369. 



first, or Pakitawiwin, i. 369. 



Fishing- Weir Creek, Saskatchewan River, 

 i. 452. 



Fishing weirs and traps of the Indians, i. 

 490, 491. 



Flat Rock Bay, Lake Manitobah, ii. 38. 

 Flax, cultivation of, at Red River, i. 228. 

 Flett, Mr. George, his farm on the banks of 



the Assiniboine River, i. 148. 

 Floods, in the basin of Lake Winnipeg, ii. 



392. 



