166,167,168,171,176;described,32;women and children left there,33.Fogs, effect of,108.Forest fires,1.France is not sighed for by the priest of an Indian encampment,232.François,seeBeaulieu, François.François the little, conducts a buffalo hunt,154-160;his wife,161.Franklin, Sir John,vi,36,77,185,205; his expedition,63;his wintering-place,65.Fraser Lake,258.Fraser River,231,256.French-Canadians, theirchansonsdying out,10.French patois of the Red River and the North,11,26.Gold-dust is to be found by the Peace River,252.Good Hope, Fort,300.Government, motherly, defied,3.Grahame, the steamer,12,16.Grand Pays, the half-breeds' name for the outside world,82,150.Grand Traverse, the,141,142.Grand Rapids, not reached by the steamer,5;reached by Mr. Pike,7;a description of the channel and its passage,8-11.Gras, Lac de,64,70,108,109,121,175.Grease longed for in the cold,55.Great Bear Lake,68.Great Fish or Back's River,36,64,115,151,152,162,164,168,171,180,184,185,188,204,205,221.Great Slave Lake,seeSlave Lake.Great Slave River,seeSlave River.Gros Cap,148.Gunn, Mr., of St. John's,251;he knew Beaver Indian tongue,252.Half-breeds are all Catholics,41.Half-way River,251.Halket Fort,231.Hanging Rock, the Lake of,93.Hardistay, Mr. Frank,296.Hay River,156.Hearne, Mr.,vi,36,152;hisJourney to the Northern Ocean,50.Hi hi he, Ho hi he!the cry for the stars,123.Ho lève, lève, il faut partir!the cry for arousing a camp,122.Hood,vi.Hospitality is in inverse proportion to a man's means,143.Hudson's Bay,48,50,223.Hudson's Bay Company, or The Company,v,1,3,14,50,52,82,83,84,99,131,156,197,210,226,228,231,238,240,250,253,296;Mr. Pike's gratitude to the officers of, for their hospitality,viii,142,143;one of their early trading posts,2;their steamers are well-managed,17;they bring a certain amount of civilisation,25;their duffelcapotes,52;their compressed tea not good to smoke,136;they are fair to the Indians,242,243.Hudson's Bay Fort on Macleod's Lake,260.Hudson's Hope,249,250,252,265,291,294,295;visited,253-257.Iceland,42.Inconnu, a fish found only in the Mackenzie River,29."Indian, the burnt," his bad luck,221,222.Indians, the great northern territory is their hunting-ground,1;they are more easily managed than the half-breeds,7;they are sent from Locheaux to man the "inland boats,"7;they cannot find their way in snow,122;they are very improvident,131, seq.;they are peaceable by nature,145;they dread the Esquimaux,152;their women quarrel,172;they imitate birds very well,172;some of them show themselves much interested in the skin of a seal, an animal they had never seen,202;they have a stupid love of killing,209;intoxicating drink may not be given to them,226.Inland boats described,6.John,258,268,270,271,276,277,278,280,281,283,285,288,292;he visits Mr. Pike,246-254;his character,246,247.John, Saint,seeSaint John.José,seeBeaulieu, José.José, the brother-in-law of Zinto,171,173.Kennedy, Alick, a goodvoyageur,295.Khartoum,296.King,seeBeaulieu, King.King Lake,62,127.Labrador tea,41,194,275,283.La Foule, la Foule!the cry on the sight of a caribou band,89.Languages, those of the North,11;those beyond the Cree-speaking belt on the Mackenzie,26.Lard, Lac du,36.Lawrence, Mr., a farmer of Vermillion,244.Lesser Slave Lake,4,6,249,250,261,292,296,297.Liard River,155,156,230,231,251.Little Buffalo River,145,158;it is impregnated with sulphur,158.Little Red River, in Athabasca district,12;its beautiful scenery,240.Little River,266,276.Little Slave River,145,297.Locheaux language,26.Lockhart's house,164.Lockhart's or Outram River,63,64,70,178,179,212,214,215,224;different opinions of its route,216.Lockhart, Pierre, a guide,164,171.Lower Peace River,235.Lynx and rabbits, their periodic dying out,293.Macdonald, Ewen, the chief of the Peace River district,250.Macdonald, Walter, son of Ewen MacDonald,261,291,294,296.Macdougall,228.Macfarlane,228.Mackay, Dr., in charge of the Athabasca district,12,17,18,63,240;a visit from him,150,151;he sends presents,163;he is absent,235;he is met by Mr. Pike,238.Mackay, Lake, or the Lake of the Hanging Rock,63,64,70,72,75,80,89,92,99,106,125,178,179,220;described,63.Mackay, Mr., a Company's clerk,7,8.Mackay, Murdo, a servant at Fort Resolution who accompanies Mr. Pike,146,151,162,206,233,236,239,246,247,258,270,273,278,282,283,292.Mackenzie, Sir Alex.,13,253.Mackenzie River, orLa Grande Rivière en Bas, v,4,10,18,19,20,36,48,50,60,142,180,230,233,265,300;its origin,16;the languages spoken along its banks,26.Mackinlay, Mr., in charge of Fort Resolution,22,144,148,162,189,193,197,206,209,213,228,233,234;joins Mr. Pike in expedition to the Barren Ground,151.Mackinlay, Mrs.,144.Macleod, Fort,266,271,277,278.Macleod's Lake,231,237,254,258,259,261,266,276,291,295;Hudson's Bay Fort on it,260.Macleod's River,266,271,273,276.MacMurray, Fort,7;Mr. Pike starts for it,9;reaches it,11;it is the most southerly post of the Athabasca district,12;it is near some natural tar deposits,13.Mandeville, François, the brother of Michel Mandeville,225.Mandeville, Michel, the interpreter at Fort Resolution,146,148,151.Mandeville, Moise, the brother of Michel Mandeville, who joins Mr. Pike,151,162,168,179,183,197;is a good steersman,198.Maps, those of Mr. Pike are not very accurate,vii.Marble Island,210.Marlo, the brother of Zinto,97,102,111,114,116,134,139,168,181,190,197.Michel, a son-in-law of King Beaulieu,33,46,61,92,93,97,104,110,130,134,139.Misère, Point de,67,72,78,108.Mission Island,144,228,229,230.Moberley's Lake,292,294.Moise,seeMandeville, Moise.Montaignais dialect of Chipeweyan language,26.Moose Island,144.Mort, Lac de,37,92,134.Mouse chased for a caribou,107.Murdo,seeMackay, Murdo.Muskeg country ends at the Point of Rocks,27.Musk-ox,69,70;the object of Mr. Pike's journey,v,vi;to be sought on the Barren Ground,23;the first killed,69;birds seen during the hunt for them,68;an expedition in search of them,61seq.;a band of them,113;the method of slaughtering them is unpleasant,116;their horns described,119;a description of a hunt for them,181-183;they are said to understand the Yellow-knife language,183;advice to hunters of them,300,301.Musk-ox, the giant,81.Musk-ox Lake,185,186,187,188,194,212,214.Musk-ox Mountain,188;it is the limit of the Yellow-knives' hunting-ground,186.Nation River,291.Nelson Fort,156,251.New Year's Day, an occasion of trade,139,146.Nile, the,296.Noel, an Indian, who joins Mr. Pike's expedition,97,111,112,115,181,190,197,205,217.Northern Packet, the,150.North-West Company, the,14.Old Wives' Lake,296.Omineca,265,291.Orkney Island,5.Ottawa,13,244,298.Outram River,seeLockhart's River.Pacific, Canadian Railway,11,271.Pacific Coast,209;routes to,231.Pacific Ocean,265.Paradox gun, its uses,137,138.Parsnip River,260,263,266,267,270,271,276,277,291,295; its source,265;its method of freezing,268.Pat, a Sicannee,258,260,266,271,272,273,274,276,277,283,286,292,293,294,295.Paul,seeBeaulieu, Paul.Peace River,4,16,155,156,209,231,237,240,242,244,245,246,248,249,251,252,253,256,265,293,294,297;one of the easiest northern waterways,238;farmers should not be tempted to it,244-246;gold-dust is found on its banks,252.Peace River, the Lower,236.Peace River Pass,278,285,301.Peel's River, a tributary of the Mackenzie,20,162.Peel's River Fort,208.Peter, an Indian, who joined Mr. Pike's expedition,97,111,115,116.Pike, Mr. Warburton: the object of his journey is to see the musk-ox,v,vi;his conveyance and outfit,1;he starts from Calgary for Edmonton, the entrance of the Hudson's Bay Company's territory,1;his French half-breed driver,2,3;he reaches Athabasca Landing and starts down the river,4;he reaches the island at the head of the Grand Rapids,7;he starts for MacMurray Fort,9, and reaches it,11;he reaches Athabasca Lake,13;he starts for Fort Smith, on the Great Slave Lake,16, and reaches it,18;