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ill River, Its Lake-like Character.

Poisonous Plants

and Native Medicines. Athabasca Brigade. Sand-fy

Lake, The Country changes its Aspect. Bull-dog

Fly, Isle à la Crosse Lake. Its Altitude above the

Sea, Length of the Missinipi. Isle à la Crosse Fort.

Roman Catholic Mission. Deep River. Canada Lynx.

Buffalo Lake, Methy River and Lake. Murrain among

the Horses, Burbot or La Loche. A Mink. Methy

Portage, Join Mr. Bell and his Party

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CHAP. IV.

Clear-Water River. Valley of the Washakummow.

Portages. Limestone Cliffs. Shale. Elk or Atha-

basca River. Wapiti. Devonian Strata. Geological

Structure of the Banks of the River. Athabasca Lake,

or Lake of the Hills. Meet Mr. M'Pherson with the

Mackenzie River Brigade. Send Home Letters. L'Es-

perance's Brigade. Fort Chepewyan. Height of Lake

Athabasca above the Sea. Rocks. Plumbago. Forest

Seenery, Slave River. Rein-Deer Islands. Portages.

Native Remedies. Separate from Mr. Bell and his

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CHAP. V.

Pyrogenous Rocks. Rate of the Current of Slave River.

Salt River and Springs. Geese. Great Slave Lake.

Domestic Cattle. Deadman's Islands. Horn Moun-

tain. Hay River. Alluvial Lignite Beds. Macken-

zie's River. Marcellus Shale. Fort Simpson. River

of the Mountains. Rocky Mountains. Spurs. Animals.

Affluents of the Mackenzie. Cheta-ut-Tinne

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CONTENTS.

CHAP. VI.

Rock by the River's Side. Shale Formation. Fort Nor-

man. Tertiary Coal Formation. Lignite Beds. Fossil

Leaves. Edible Clay. Spontaneous Combustion of the

River Bank. Hill at Bear Lake River. Hill at the

Rapid on that River. Forest. Plants. Birds -

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CHAP. VII.

Peregrine Falcon. The Rapid. Ramparts. Hare Indians.

Fort Good Hope. Hares. Kutchin. Their Contests

with the Eskimos. A Fatal Dance. A Hare Indian

devoured by a Brown Bear. Vegetation. Narrows.

Richardson Chain of Hills. Fort Separation. Cache

of Pemican and Memorandum. Alluvial Delta. Yukon

River. Rein-Deer Hills. M'Gillivray Island. Harri-

son Island. Termination of the Forest. Sacred Island.

Richard's Island. Point Encounter

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CHAP. VIII.

Enter the Estuary of the Mackenzie. Interview with

the Eskimos. Remarks on that People. Winter-Houses

near Point Warren. Copland Hutchison Bay. Flat

Coast with Hummocks. Level Boggy Land. Mirage.

A Party of Eskimos visit us. Point Atkinson. Kashim.

Old Woman. Old Man. Young Men. Cape Brown.

Eskimos. Russell Inlet. Cape Dalhousie.

Xema. Liverpool Bay. Nicholson Island.

Cliffs of Cape Maitland. Rock Ptarmigan. Eskimo

Tents. Harrowby Bay. Baillie's Islands. River of

the Toothless Fish or Beghula Tessè. Eskimo of Cape

Bathurst. Their Summer and its Occupations. Shale

Formation of the Sea-Coast

Sabine

Frozen

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CHAP. IX.

Mel-

Voyage continued along the Coast. Franklin Bay.

ville Hills. Point Stivens. Sellwood Bay. Cape

Parry. Cocked-Hat Point. Cache of Pemican. Ice

Packs. Archway. Burrow's Islands. Darnley Bay.

Clapperton Island. Cape Lyon. Point Pearce. Point

Keats. Point Deas Thompson.

Silurian Strata. Ros-

coe River. Point de Witt Clinton.

Furrowed Cliffs.

Melville Range. Point Tinney. Buchanan River.

Cape

Drift Ice. Croker's River. Point Clifton. Inman's

River. Point Wise. Hoppner River. Wollaston Land.

Cape Young. Stapylton Bay. Cape Hope.

Bexley. Ice Floes. Point Cockburn. A Storm.

Chantry Island. Salmon. Lambert Island. Leave a

Boat. Cape Krusenstern. Detained by Ice. Basil

Hall's Bay. Cape Hearne.

Peculiar Severity of the

Season. Conjectures respecting the Discovery Ships.

Resources of a Party enclosed by Ice among the Arctic

Islands. General Reflections

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CHAP. X.

Preparing for the March. Sleep in Back's Inlet. Eskimo

Village. Eskimos ferry the Party across Rae River.

Basaltic Cliffs. Cross Richardson's River. March

along the Banks of the Coppermine. Geese. First

Clump of Trees. Musk Oxen. Copper Ores and Na-

tive Copper. Kendall River. Make a Raft. Fog.

Pass a Night on a Naked Rock without Fuel. Fine

Clump of Spruce Firs. Dismal Lakes. Indians. Dease

River. Fort Confidence. Send off Despatches and

Letters

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National Name Inu-it.

Personal Appearance.

Eskimos. Origin of the Name.

Great Extent of their Country.

Occupations. Provident of the Future. Villages. Seal

Hunt. Snow Houses. Wanderings not extensive.

Respect for Territorial Rights. Dexterous Thieves.

Courage. Traffic. Compared to the Phoenicians.

Skrellings. Western Tribes pierce the Lip and Nose.

Female Toilet. Mimics. Mode of defying their Ene-

mies. Dress. Boats. Kaiyaks. Umiaks. Dogs.

Religion. Shamanism. Susceptibility of Cultivation.

Origin. Language. Western Tribes of the Eskimo

Stock. Tchugatchih. Kuskutchewak. A Kashim or

Council House. Feasts. Quarrels. Wars. Customs.

Mammoth's Tusks. National Names. Namollos or

Sedentary Tchutchki. Rein-Deer Tchuktche. Their

Commerce. Shamanism. Of the Mongolian

Herds.

Stock

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CHAP. XII.

Designations.

Pigments.

ON THE KUTCHIN OR LOUCHEUX.

Personal Appearance. Tattoo. Employ

Dress. Ornaments. Beads. Used as a

Medium of Exchange. Shells. Winter Dress. Arms.

Wives. Treatment of Infants. Compress their Feet.

Lively Dispositions. Religious Belief. Shamanism.

Anecdotes. Treachery.
Treachery. Contests with the Eskimos.

Occupations. Traffic. Beads and Shells. Tents. Va-

pour Baths.
Deer Pounds. Oratory. Talkativeness.

Dances. Manbote or Blood-Money. Ceremonies on

meeting other People. Population of the Valley of the

Yukon. Same People with certain Coast Tribes. Ko-

lusches. Kenaiyers. Ugalents. Atnaër. Koltshanen.
Persons and Dress. Deer Pounds. Passion for Glass
Beads. Kolushes descended from a Raven. Courtship.
Wives. Revenge. Murder. Burn the Dead. Mourn-
ing. Do not name the Deceased. Custom connected
therewith. Winter Habitations. Journeys of the Ke-
naiyer Inland. Porcupine Quills. Slavery

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V. Portrait of a Chief of the Kutchi-Kutchi

VI. Kutchin Woman and Children.-Cradle for Infants

VII. Portrait of Savìah, a Kutchi-Kutchi Chief

VIII. Kutchin Winter-lodges. (Vide p. 392.)

IX. Dance of the Kutchi-Kutchi

Frontispiece

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WOODCUTS

Rocky Mountains at the Bend of the Mackenzie

Rock by the River's Side

Hill in Bear Lake River

AND DIAGRAMS.

Ramparts, Mackenzie's River, Geological Section

Diagram of Rocks in lat. 68° 10' N.

Sandhills on the Mackenzie, Lat. 68° 50′ N.

Conical Hill near Point Encounter

Torso Rock

ERRATUM.

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