CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



Page 



Departure from England — Transactions at Stromness— Enter Davis' Straits — 

 Perilous Situation on the Shore of Resolution Island — Land on the Coast of 

 Labrador — Esquimaux of Savage Islands — York Factory — Preparations for the 

 Journey into the Interior . . . . . . . 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Passage up Hayes', Steel, and Hill Rivers— Cross Swampy Lake— Jack River- 

 Knee Lake, and Magnetic Islet — Trout River— Holey Lake — Weepinapannis 

 River — Windy Lake — White-Fall Lake and River — Echemamis and Sea Rivers 

 — Play-Green Lake— -Lake Winipeg — River Saskatchawan — Cross Cedar and 

 Pine-Island Lakes — Cumberland-House . . . . .27 



CHAPTER III. 



Dr. Richardson's Residence at Cumberland-House — His Account of the Cree 



Indians . . . . . . . . .59 



CHAPTER IV. 



Leave C umberland-House — Mode of Travelling in Winter — Arrival at Carlton 

 House — Stone Indians — Visit to a Buffalo Pound — Goitres — Departure from 

 Carlton-House — Isle a la Crosse — Arrival at Fort Chipewyan . . 94 



CHAPTER IV* 



Transactions at Fort Chipewyan — Arrival of Dr. Richardson and Mr. Hood — Pre- 

 parations for our Journey to the Northward . . . . .142 



CHAPTER V. 



Mr. Hood's Journey to the Basquian Hills — Sojourns with an Indian Party — His 



Journey to Chipewyan . . . . . . 167 



