Arctic Searching Expedition: A Journal of a Boat-voyage Through Rupert's ... - Sir John Richardson - Google Books

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In the Indian names which occur in the following narrative, u is to be sounded like oo, in "moon;" yu as "yule," or like "you ;" and i as in "ravine."

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CONTENTS.

Route assigned to the Expedition under command of Sir

John Franklin. Names of the Officers. Erebus and

Terror. Date of its sailing. Last Letters. Sir John

Franklin's last Official Letter. Last Sight of the Expe-

dition. Sir John Ross proposes a Search. Discussion

of Various Opinions offered respecting the Fate of the

Expedition. Plans of Search adopted. Main Objects

of the Overland Searching Expedition. Instructions

from the Admiralty

Overland Searching Expedition. Routes through the In-

terior. Hudson's Bay Ships. Pemican. Boats. Boat

Party leaves England. Arrives at Winter Quarters.

Volunteers. Mr. John Rae appointed to the Expedition.

The Author and Mr. Rae sail from England. Land at

New York. Proceed to Montreal and La Chine. Canoe-

Saut Ste. Marie. Voyage to the North. Reach

Cumberland House

Pine Island Lake. Silurian Strata. Sturgeon River.

Progress of Spring. Beaver Lake. Isle à la Crosse

Brigade. Ridge River. Native Schoolmaster and his

Family. Two Kinds of Sturgeon. Native Medicines.

Bald Eagles. Pelicans. Black-Bellied and Cayenne

Terns. Cranes. Frog Portage. Missinipi or Church-

ill River. Its Lake-like Character. Poisonous Plants

and Native Medicines. Athabasca Brigade. Sand-fly

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

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

Scenery. Slave River. Rein-Deer Islands. Portages.

Native Remedies. Separate from Mr. Bell and his

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

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 -

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.

Richard's Island. Point Encounter

Enter the Estuary of the Mackenzie.

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.

Eskimos. Russell Inlet.

Xema. Liverpool Bay.

Cliffs of Cape Maitland.

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

Cape Dalhousie.

Nicholson Island.

Rock Ptarmigan. Eskimo

Voyage continued along the Coast. Franklin Bay. Mel-

ville Hills. Point Stivens. Sellwood Bay.

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

Packs. Archway. Burrow's Islands.

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.

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

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

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