he makes preparations for the actual journey to the Barren Ground, and engages the Beaulieu family as guides and servants,19;he leaves the Company's main route at Fort Resolution,24;he takes too few provisions,25;the details of his outfit, his fleet, and his companions,25,26;he picks up a little of the Montaignais dialect,26;he encamps in the delta of the Slave River,26,27;he reaches Fond du Lac,31, where the women, children, and as much baggage as possible are left behind,33;he leaves the Great Slave Lake, and contemplates the country he has just left and that towards which he is journeying,35;he takes a new route and names new lakes,36;a good caribou hunt,43seq.;he approaches the genuine Barren Ground,46;a chapter on the caribou,47-60;he makes an expedition from Lake Camsell in search of the musk-ox,61;he shoots his first musk-ox,69,70;he concludes that it would be reckless to push further North, and turns back,71;he reaches Lake Camsell again,76;plans for the next musk-ox hunt,79;King Beaulieu's theories and anecdotes,81-88;a remarkable passage of the caribou,89-91;a visit of the chief Zinto and his followers,93;arrangements for the second musk-ox hunt,96,97;he starts,99;his first winter camp in the Barren Ground,101-104;a description of the country,105-110;he is in difficulties for food,110;the musk-ox come in sight and are killed,112-116;the land of the musk-ox,117;another band of musk-ox killed,118;their horns described,119;the return road is lost in the snow,122, but found the next morning,123;he reaches Lake Camsell again and goes on towards Fond du Lac,128;he visits Zinto's camp,129seq.;he sleeps at Fond du Lac on his road to the Great Slave Lake,139;he is joined by more Indians,140,141;he reaches Fort Resolution and comparative civilisation,143;some account of the Fort,143-147;he makes a small expedition for caribou with Mackinlay,148;he makes plans for a summer trip to the Barren Ground,150seq.;he goes on a short buffalo hunt with Mackinlay,154-162;the difficulties in starting for the Barren Ground,162,163;he leaves Fort Resolution,164;he leaves the great Slave Lake with Mackinlay and some of the Indians,174;a new method of hunting the musk-ox,181;he makes little expeditions, one with Capot Blanc,187seq.;a division of the party before going further down the Great Fish River,190;Syene, the medicine man, prophesies,191seq.;two of the Indians desert,197;he turns up-stream,204;he explores a new tributary,205-208;he leaves presents in a deserted Esquimaux camp,209;the return journey,216-230;he cannot stay long at Fort Resolution, and makes plans for his journey up-stream, to cross the Rocky Mountains, and if possible reach the Pacific,231;he decides between the routes and starts,232;he enters Athabasca Lake,235;he camps at Quatre Fourches,237;he turns westward up the Peace River,238;he reaches Vermillion Fort,241;his difficulties in getting a crew,245seq.;he reaches Dunvegan,249, and St. John's,251;he leaves the Cree-speaking belt and enters that of the Beaver Indians,251;his first glimpse of the Rockies,252;he reaches Hudson's Hope,253;he camps at the head of the Cañon,258;a change in the wind prevents his making use of sleighs,259;he begins a more detailed account of his winter in the Rockies,260;a dangerous journey to the Findlay Rapids,263,264;a glance at his geographical position,265;he discovers that the road is lost,272seq.;a search for food,274;he begins to retrace his way,276;his decision concerning the Indians who steal the rations,284,285;he reaches Tom Barrow's house,290;he leaves Hudson's Hope for Edmonton,295,which he reaches during an election,298;he writes the last words in St. James's Street, giving advice to musk-ox hunters and longing for the Barren Ground,299seq.Pierre,seeBeaulieu, Pierre.Pierre, Blind,seeFat, Pierre.Pierre the Fool,218,219,223,224;his description of the country east of Clinton Golden Lake,223.Pierre, an Indian boy, the son of little François,159.Pierre, Ile de,141,142,166,229;a good spot for fishing,27.Pine River,294.Pine River Pass,292.Poplar Rapid,262,265,287.Portage, the Long,12;the work of portaging described,17,18."Prairie, the bald-headed," a term of the cattlemen,2.Proverb of the North, a,267.Ptarmigan plentiful,44.Ptarmigan Lake,219.Quatre Fourches,16,237.Quesnelle,231,246,250,258,271,292.Rabbit and lynx, their periodic decease,293.Rae, Dr.,vi.Rae, Fort,95,148,167,a good starting-point for the Barren Ground,299.Raven, a superstition concerning the,66.Red-deer, the stream of,2.Reid, Mr., of Fort Province, told King Beaulieu that the earth went round the sun,83.Resolution, Fort, on the Great Slave Lake, the northern limit of the Athabasca district,12,22,24,50,59,97,130,150,154,163,167,185,210,225,227,228,230,232,233;Mr. Pike returns to it,143;its history and present life,144,145;it is not perhaps the best starting-point for the Barren Ground,300.Richardson,vi.Riel, Louis, his rebellion,83.Rocher, Lac du,38,39,63,73,91,128;it is a haunt of the caribou,39;trout are caught in it,39;its products and geological structure,41,42;it is like the desert of Arnavatn in Iceland,42.Rocks, Point of, the end of the Muskeg country,27.Rocky Mountains, the,v,ix,1,143,155,209,231,237,238,241,248,250,260,265,272,281,291,294;the first glimpse of,252,253;Mr. Pike's attempt to cross them,232-272.Round, Mr., in charge of Dunvegan,250.Saint James's Street,299.Saint John, Fort, often called St. John's,156,249,251,252,253,294,295.Salt River,19,21.Saltatha, an Indian who joins Mr. Pike's expedition,97,109,111,112,114,115,120,122,123,168,171,172,193,195,197,202,203,208,217,219,226;his energy,105,190;his character,115;his illness and its cure by brandy,211,227;his friendly parting with Mr. Pike,232;his answer to the priest concerning the beauties of heaven,302.Sandy Bay,180,275.Saskatchewan River,2,4.Shooting etiquette must be abandoned among the Indians,159.Sicannee fashion of burying,269,279.Simpson, Fort,230.Simpson, Mr. Scott, in charge of river transport,6.Simpson, Sir G.,253.Simpson's group of islands,28.Slave or Great Slave Lake,vii,13,15,16,20,21,25,36,40,41,42,44,48,50,63,68,84,85,88,131,148,155,156,172,176,178,191,213,215,218,219,221,223,225,228,242,248,300,301;Mr. Pike's journey on, finished,34;his last view of,35;the vegetation on its banks,30,31;it is a charming place to live on,232.[There is a Lesser Slave Lake,see"Lesser."]Slave or Big River,16,26,48,142,233,238;its rapids,12;described,21;its wild-fowl,27.[There is also a Little Slave River,see"Little."]Slavi language,26.Sleighs of the North described,99-101.Smith, Fort, in Athabasca district,12,21,29,48,145,156,158,161,163,231,234,236,245;Mr. Pike starts for it,16;the game near it,18;described,18.Smoking, the Company's compressed tea not recommended,136.Smoky River, a tributary of the Peace,249,295,296.Snow, calledle couvert du bon Dieuby Beaulieu,62;prevents the Indians from finding their way,122.Snow-blindness, its cause and cures,175.Stars, supposed to be brought out by the cryHi hi he, Ho hi he,123.Stewart, Mr.,vi,36,63,171,184,195.Sunday wash, the,79.Superstitions, concerning the caribou,59;and miracles,133.Syene, an Indian medicine man,152,168,222;he prophesies,191,192.Syene, Mrs., assists at the prophesying,191.Tête Jaune Pass,293.Tête Noire's House,166.Thomas, an Indian, the brother of Zinto,141;he is a good guide,142.Tobacco, is missed more than tea,120,121;the various kinds in use among the Indians,31;it may be made from Cannicannick berry,31.Vermillion, Fort, in Athabasca district,12,156,236,238,240,241,242,247,248,249;described,241-244.Walls of meat, as in a fairy tale,76,77.Whisky Jack, the ways of the,134,135.William, an Indian who joined Mr. Pike's expedition,97,111,112,114.Willows pulled up for firewood,121.Wilson, Mr., of Vermillion Fort,245,246.Winnipeg,vii,11,144,214,296.Wolves and wolverines,57,89;their ways of stealing,45,128;they hunt the caribou,56,57.Women, given the heaviest loads,38;their hard work and usefulness,81;they are treated better by half-breeds than by Indians,82.Wood, Mr., in charge of the Athabasca landing,5.Wrangel Fort,231.Wrigley, the, a steamer on the Mackenzie,10,19,231,233;her make and work,20.Yellow-knife river,36,63.Yellow-knife tribe,32,37,48,53,60,66,72,85,86,92,95,96,115,152,195,202,211,214;their etiquette in hunts,111;their encampment,131seq.;the kind of husband most desired among them,133;their dancing,147,148;their gambling with the Dog-Ribs,167;their stupidity and cowardice outside their own country,197;their language,213;they are less amenable than the Dog-Ribs,300.York Boat, its peculiarities,228,229.York factory,50.Zinto, a chief of the Yellow-knives,96,97,129,130;his visit to Mr. Pike and his speech,93-95;his camp and people,129-134;he makes promises of help,152,153;but does not fulfil them,163,164,167.