Chapter 9

Alaska, Southern,231.Alberta, its prairies remembered,196;an election of its representative,298.America, the Eastern States of,256.Anderson, Mr., his route referred to,vi,36,63,151,152,171,185,196,215.Arnavatn, in Iceland,42.Arctic exploration, its records,47.Arctic flowers,187.Arctic fox, shot at,40.Arctic hare, described,68.Arctic Ocean or Sea,v,4,12,20,63,64,65,178,205,214,265;the best route to,221.Arctic regions, no extraordinary thickness of clothes required in them,104.Arrowsmith's map, compared with that issued by the Dominion Government,216.Artillery Lake,220,221,224.Athabasca district,63,235;its limits,12.Athabasca Lake,15,16,68,231,235;reached by Mr. Pike,13;its produce,13,14.Athabasca River,v,2,3,4,6,7,11,17,36,231,293;the landing,4,297.Aylmer Lake, or the Lake of the Big Cliffs,64,178,179,180,191,213,216,221.Back, Sir George,vi,36,151,180,185,215;his map,200.Back's, or the Great Fish, River,seeGreat Fish River.Baptiste, little,seeBeaulieu, Baptiste.Baptiste Testerwich, a half-breed Iroquois,253,255,258,292,294;his daughters, the "belles" of Hudson's Hope,258.Barren Ground, The,v,vi,14,15,19,23,35,48,54,55,58,63,65,75,80,84,88,89,90,91,94,96,97,99,102,110,116,122,126,130,137,143,168,174,176,177,196,209,221,225,232,271,300,302;Mr. Pike's various expeditions to it,19-77,99-128,164-228;Mr. Pike's advice to future travellers there,24;its mosses and lichens,42;it produces one species ofCervidæ,47;its birds,175;exploration in it is ceasing,185;its animals,198,199;Mr. Pike longs to return to it,301;a list of its flowers,320.Barrow, Thomas,257,261,290,291,292;his house or cabin,259,281,288,289.Bathurst Inlet,120,191,197,204,208.Battle River reached,248.Beaulieu, Baptiste, a son of King Beaulieu,33,89.Beaulieu, François, a son of King Beaulieu,22,39,43,61,79,93,97,135,136,137,139,141.Beaulieu, José, brother of King Beaulieu,234.Beaulieu, José, a son of King Beaulieu,22,61,91,92,136,137,236;his love-affairs,245.Beaulieu, King, a French half-breed and guide,19,32,38,41,61,66,71,72,81,82,83,90,94,95,97,101,102,128,135,166,233;his character,19,23,24;his father and sons,22,23;he calls the snowle couvert du bon Dieu,62;a lake is called after him,62;his cleverness,73;his opinions and anecdotes,83-88;he refuses to join the second musk-ox hunt,97.Beaulieu, Paul, a son of King Beaulieu,22,39,43,61,70,79,92,93,97,101,103,108,111,118,130.Beaulieu, Pierre, a brother of King Beaulieu,148,149,233.Beaulieus, the,33,64,77,134,136,138;their character,23;they are not agreeable to live with,126;the final settlement with them,147;they apparently try to damage Mr. Pike's chances of success,168.Beaulieus, the young, the sons of King Beaulieu,22,38.Beaver tribe dying out,253.Beavers, their actions mould geography,155;an account of the other animals found in their country,156,157.Beaver Indians, their language,251.Beechey Lake,190,204,205.Biche, Lake La,6.Big Lake,131.Big River, the usual native name for the Slave River,26.Blackfeet, the,3,132.Blue hills in the distance tempt one to push on,207.Bloody Falls, the,152.Boiler Rapid, the,9.Boiling, the favourite method of cooking,55.British Columbia,seeColumbia.Brick, Mr., a farmer of Smoky River,244,296;his mission,249;his son,295,301.Buffalo bands,156;a hunt for,154-159.Bull-dogs, "a cross between a bee and a blue-bottle," an annoyance to the horses,3.Bull's Head, the,256,289.Calgary,ix,2,3,11,298,299;left in June, 1889,1.California,256.Camp, a good,40,126.Campbell, Mr.,228.Camsell Lake,43,46,61,76,80,128.Camsell, Mr., in charge of the Mackenzie River district,20,22,231.Canada, Eastern,13.Cannicannick Berry used for tobacco,31.Canoe, a birch-bark, is a "pretty poetical thing," 197.Cap, the,250.Capot Blanc, an Indian,140,168,171,172,176,181,182,185,187,188,191,213.Carcajou, the, is a cunning beast,57.Caribou, the, sometimes found near the Fond du Lac,14;Mr. Pike's prospect of finding it,32;he finds some bands,43,64,72,76,89,108;Et-then, Et-then!the cry on the sight of it,44;the methods of cooking it,44-46;it is the one specimen ofCervidæfound in the Barren Ground,47;its different species described,47,48;killed by Esquimaux,56;some details of its appearance and habits,48-60;the methods of freezing it,67;it is killed by women and boys,76;the cry,La Foule, La Foule!when a band is in sight,89;the most remarkable passage of caribou seen by Mr. Pike,91.Caribou diggings,256.Caribou-eaters,19.Caribou gold-fields,231.Caribou mountains,239,241.Carquoss, an Indian,190,197.Cassiar mining district,231.Catholics, all half-breeds are,41.Charlie, a half-breed from Quesnelle,258,260,266,270,272,273,276,277,283,285,286,288,289,293,294;his character,292.Chesterfield Inlet,210.Chinook wind, the,259.Chipeweyan Fort, the head-post of the Athabasca district,5,12,150,163,231,234,235,238,241,245;its history and present life,13-15;trout-lines may be worked there,14;the appearance of the country changes on leaving it,16.Chipeweyan language,26,251.Christie's Bay,30.Civilisation is degenerating,299.Clark, Mr., arrives as Mr. Mackinlay's substitute,163,164.Clearwater River, the main route to the North,11,12.Clinton Golden Lake, or the Lake where the caribou swim among the ice,216,220,223;described,217,218.Columbia, British,231,265.Company, the,seeHudson's Bay Company.Cooking, the favourite method is boiling,55.Cooper, Fenimore,129.Coppermine River,64,65,67,72,108,110,152;the Bloody Falls of,152.Corbeau, Lac du,43.Country, the, its nature between Calgary and Edmonton,1,2;and after leaving Chipeweyan,16,17.Crees, the,3,132;their language the medium of conversation on the Athabasca,11;their lodges passed,241.Cree-speaking belt,26;left by Mr. Pike,251.Cries: that on the sight of caribou,Et-then, Et-then!,44;on the sight of a band of caribou,La Foule, La Foule!,89;to awake a camp,He lève, lève, il faut partir!,122;that ofHi hi he, Ho hi he, to bring out the stars,123.Dakota blizzard, brought to Mr. Pike's mind by his experience of wind,88.David, the Esquimaux,162,206,210,211,271,276;falls in love with the daughter of King Beaulieu,168;a keen hunter,180;his first summer outside the Arctic circle,207.Davis, Twelvefoot,256,257.Dease Lake,230.Deluge, King Beaulieu's story of the,85-88.Dog-rib tribes, the,32,53,60,85,90,95,195;a spot on their history,72;they gamble with the Yellow-knives,167;they are more amenable than the Yellow-knives,300.Dogs are a trouble in winter travelling from their need of much food,149.Dominion Day, a Canadian anniversary,182.Dominion government's map,216.Dunvegan,245,249,250,253,292,295,296.Dupire, Father, in charge of the Catholic mission at Fort Resolution,144,149.Edmonton,2,295,297,298;the starting point for the territory of Hudson's Bay Company,1;an election at,298.Enemy, the,81,187.Enemy, the Lake of the,80,127.English is little spoken in the north,11.English Channel, the,229.Enterprise Fort,65.Esquimaux, the,186,192,195,196,204,208,211;they also kill the caribou,56;they are dreaded by the Indians,151,152;presents for them,164,167,209;signs of their camp,201-205.Etitchula, the Indian,135,136.Et-then, Et-then!the cry on the sight of the caribou,44.Euclid's methods,275.Expedition, the object of Mr. Pike's,v,vi,70;the ceremony of commemorating one,228.Fat, Antoine, a blind Indian,176.Fat, Pierre, a blind Indian,176;he appreciates scenery,178.Findlay River,260,263,265,268,276,280,295;its rapids,264,265,281;its source,265.Flett, Mr., and his family, passengers down the Athabasca,5;in charge of Fort Smith,234.Fond du Lac,12,14,15,28,31,32,38,40,57,61,62,79,91,92,93,96,97,101,104,120,130,134,135,136,137,139,141,144,148,163,164,


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