PART II

SECT. PAGE FOREWORD 189

  1. CLIMATE 191

    II. SOIL                                                         201
    III. MINERALS                                                     205
    IV. PLACER GOLD                                                  209
  2. TIMBER 211

    VI. ANIMALS                                                      217
    VII. FISH                                                         221
    VIII. WILD FOWL                                                    223
    IX. INHABITANTS                                                  229
  3. HALF BREEDS 247

    XI. THE TRADERS                                                  253
    XII. MISSIONARIES                                                 261
    CONCLUSION: AN APPEAL                                        267

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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S.S. _Wrigley_ at the junction of the Mackenzie and Liard
  Rivers                                              _Frontispiece_
Tracking on Athabaska River                                         36
Grand Rapids on Athabaska River                                     44
Lunch time on the Athabaska River                                   46
Funeral of Herbert Bray on the Athabaska                            48
Stones on the Athabaska                                             50
Fort Chippewyan on Athabaska Lake                                   62
Spruce Timber on the Slave River                                    64
Rapids on the Slave River at the Second Portage                     68
Smith’s Landing on Slave River                                      70
Steamer _Grahame_ at Smith’s Landing                                72
Leaving Fort Smith on the Slave River                               74
Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake                                 76
Dog-ribbed Indians on Great Slave Lake                              78
Fort Providence on the Mackenzie River                              82
Bishop Reeve, Stefansson, and Resident Clergyman at Simpson         90
The Ramparts, Mackenzie River                                      100
The Midnight Sun                                                   106
At McPherson: Indians, Half-breeds, and Esquimaux in Foreground    108
Fort McPherson                                                     114
Rampart, House on the Porcupine River                              148
Yukon River at Fort Yukon                                          156
Fort Yukon in Alaska                                               160
Dawson City                                                        170
Indian Children at Fort Simpson                                    178
Totum Poles at Alert Bay on Vancouver Island                       184
Esquimaux on their Kyaks                                           192
A Moose and Indian Tepee                                           218
Coming in from the North                                           230
Trading with the Esquimaux                                         254

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