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were imported from Norway, they came high in 
price, and were out of the question for practical 
purposes. The product of the Northland factory 
is to be found in all of the hardware and sport¬ 
ing goods stores of the North. The factory was 
established three years ago, and in order to take 
advantage of the knowledge of ski making that 
has long been handed down from father to son 
in Norway it is said that this company’s em¬ 
ployes almost to a man are ski makers who learn¬ 
ed their trade in Norway, so to be numbered 
among the best to be found anywhere.—The 
Sporting Goods Dealer. 
RETAIN THE INDIAN NAMES. 
Editor, Forest and Stream: 
In reading over the several articles you have 
published of late with reference to new Cana¬ 
dian territory now being made accessible, I was 
pleased indeed to see that you favor the use of 
the original Indian names of lakes and districts 
rather than the so-called civilized titles which 
often disfigure our natural scenic spots. I do 
not know to whom we owe that string of Roman 
and Greek cities, Troy, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, 
etc., that spread across New York State, follow¬ 
ing the old Iroquois trail for the most part, but 
the barbarism that set aside the Indian names 
in order to show some familiarity with the 
classics and thus inflict on future generations 
unnatural titles, is an anachronism to be con¬ 
demned. 
Adirondack Murray was wont to rail at such 
practices in the Lake Champlain region. Hori- 
con is certainly a finer name than Lake George, 
not to mention innumerable instances of like 
character. Let us hope that in the new country 
now opening in northern Quebec and west to 
the Pacific coast, the Indian names will be re¬ 
tained. There is no objection perhaps to giving 
the name of some distinguished statesman or 
other citizen to a lake here and there, but when 
it comes to loading on these beauty spots of 
nature the unknown cognomen of Cousin Jenny’s 
rich husband, just because he financed the expe¬ 
dition , the time to protest has come. 
True, Indian titles are often local and as the 
railroad annihilates distance, are repeated in end¬ 
less fashion. 
Your Woods Indian is not a great prowler— 
that is, he sticks closely to his own district, be¬ 
cause he has no means of communication with 
others unless at expense of much muscular ex¬ 
ertion and waste of time, and because also, if 
he wanders too freely in the other fellow’s hunt¬ 
ing or trapping district, he is apt to be regarded 
with suspicion and meet with trouble. That is 
why we have so many “Michigama” or “Michi- 
kauma” lakes, for the Indian word means simply, 
Big Lake. The Indian' tongue gives a soft ca¬ 
dence to natural expressions but the Indian ex¬ 
ercises no poetic fancy in designating his terri¬ 
tory. Like the white man, he confers on these 
subjects some physical or other local distinction 
or incident in his daily life. It will be remem¬ 
bered that it was in trying to reach Lake “Michi- 
kauma” in Labrador a few years ago that Leoni¬ 
das Hubbard lost his life- 
Probably there are a thousand “sturgeon” 
lakes, “trout” lakes, “long” lakes, etc., scattered 
throughout Canada and the United States. The 
white man has simply translated into his own 
language the Indian titles for these. 
And what a flexible vocal instrument one and 
Buyers Index to Sporting Goods Trade 
Forest and Stream recommends all Dealers and Manufacturers whose 
names appear in this Index 
ARMS AND AMMUNITION— 
N. R. Davis & Sons, Assonet, Mass. 
DuPont Powder Co., Wilmington, Del. 
A. H. Fox Gun Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 
S. J. Francis, 8 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. 
Guns swapped for cash or firearms. 
Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del. 
Hunter Arms Co., Inc., 776 Hubbard St., Fulton, N. Y. 
H. H. Kiffe Co., 523 Broadway, New York. 
Lefever Arms Co., 200 Maltbie St., Syracuse, N. Y. 
Marlin Fire Arms, New Haven, Conn. 
Parker Bros., Meriden, Conn. 
Peters Cartridge Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Powell & Clement, 410 Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Remington Arms-U. M. C. Co., 299 Broadway, N. Y. 
Rifles—ammunition. 
Robin Hood Ammunition Co., Swanton, Vt. 
Savage Arms Co., Utica, N. Y. 
Schoverling, Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway, New York. 
Ross Rifle, Quebec, Can. 
Maxim Silencer, Hartford, Conn. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 
SPORTING GOODS— 
J. H. Lau & Co., 75 Chambers St., New York. 
Powell & Clement, 410 Main St., Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Schoverling, Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway, New York. 
H. H. Kiffe Co., 523 Broadway, New York. 
MOTORS— 
Waterman Marine Motor Co., 267 Mt. Elliott Ave., 
Detroit, Mich. Detachable motors. 
TAILORS TO SPORTSMEN— 
Lincoln Bennett & Co., Ltd., 40 Piccadilly, London, 
England. Outing clothes for men and women. 
E. George & Co.. 87 Regent St., London. 
Outing clothes for men and women. 
SPORTSMEN’S SPECIALTIES— 
Hyfield Mfg. Co.—Excelsior Belt Safe, 48 Franklin 
St., New York. Sportsmen’s belt safes. 
Pneumatic Mfg. Co., 284 Ninth Ave., Brooklyn, N. 
Y. Perfection sleeping bags. 
The New York Boat and Oar Co., 69 West St., New 
York City. Oars and canoe paddles. 
L. A. Nelson Mfg. Co., 305 Main St., La Crosse. 
Wis. Leather vests and jackets. 
all of the Indian tongues become when used 
rightly! The same basic Algonquin stock ex¬ 
tends, or did extend, across the Continent almost 
from Labrador to the Rocky Mountains and 
while dialects differed largely, communication be¬ 
tween the tribes was always possible. 
Where the dialect became confused or merged 
into a new tongue, the sign language took its 
place and was equally useful. Old Bill Llam- 
ilton, a great plainsman, whose life has been 
published by Forest and Stream, was probably 
the best sign talker in the West. It is an art, 
or learning, fast dying out because the necessity 
for practicing it has disappeared and it is one 
that will be difficult to preserve because it has 
to be passed visually from teacher to pupil. 
To return to Indian names, any student who 
takes the time can easily acquire sufficient knowl¬ 
edge of the language to interpret the names of 
lakes, mountains, etc. Hiawatha, Longfellow’s 
great poem, is not read as much as it used to be. 
OARS AND CANOE PADDLES— 
The New York Boat Oar Co., 69 West Street, New 
York City. 
TAXIDERMISTS— 
Edwin Dixon, Unionville, Ontario. 
Crosby Frisian Fur Co., Rochester, N. Y. “Let 
us Tan Your Hide.” 
J. Kannofsky, 363 Canal St., New York. 
Artificial eyes for birds and animals. 
John Murgatroyd, 37 W. 24th St., New York. 
Papier Mache Specialties Co., Reading, Mich. 
Fred Sauter, 42 Bleecker St., New York. 
FISHING TACKLE— 
Thos. J. Conroy, 28 John St., New York. 
Manufacturer, importers and dealer in all tackle. 
Horton Mfg. Co., Bristol, Conn. 
Bristol Steel Rod. 
H. H. Kiffe Co., 523 Broadway, New York. 
All kinds of tackle. 
Wm. Mills & Son, 21 Park PI., New York. 
H. L. Leonard. Rod and all tackle. 
Schoverling, Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway, New York. 
Tackle of every sort. 
LUBRICANTS— 
Dixon’s Graphite—Joseph Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey 
City, N. J. Gun, motor and bicycle graphite. 
Nyoil—Wm. F. Nye, New Bedford, Mass. 
Gun oil. 
Three-in-One-Oil, 112 New St., New York. 
Gun oil. 
POWDER MANUFACTURERS— 
E. I. duPont de Nemours Co., Wilimimgbon, Del. 
DuPont, Schultze, Ballistite. 
Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del. 
E. C. and infallible powder. 
Robin Hood Ammunition Co., Swanton, Vt. 
Schoverling, Daly & Gales. Millerite powder. 
SHELLS— 
Peters Cartridge Co., Cincinnati, O. 
Steel, where steel belongs. 
Remington Arms, U.M.C. Co., New York City. 
Arrow, nitro club. 
Robin Hood Ammunition Co., Swanton, Vt. 
Clipper, kick minus—speed plus. 
Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn. 
Leader cartridges. 
VARNISH AND PAINT— 
Edward Smith & Co., Long Island City, N. Y. Floor 
varnish for homes and bungalows. 
The poet sometimes twisted his Indian words 
to comply with the requirements of metric con¬ 
struction, but there is still a pretty good Ojibway 
vocabulary to be found in Hiawatha. Thus 
if we take the name of a pike, “kenonge,” we 
have a root which makes plain the name of 
many waters. In the Ojibway and also in the 
Montaignais, “nipi” is water, “kego” or “kegan” 
is fish, etc., etc. .“Waswanipi” becomes fish-spear 
or fish-hook or almost anything of that sort, 
as applied to a lake. 
Strangely enough the Montaignais and also 
other Indian tongues are marvels in grammatical 
flexibility. The early Jesuit fathers, who pre¬ 
pared a Montaignais dictionary for themselves, 
declared that the verbs had ten conjunctions, and 
as pointed out by Mr. E. D. T. Chambers, an 
old Forest and Stream contributor, the language 
closely follows the Hebrew construction in this 
particular. The good fathers perhaps were de¬ 
lighted to find that it did. They may have had 
