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Through trackless Labrador

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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An account of an exploratory expedition across interior Labrador, following a party that travels from the Atlantic coast into an uncharted inland plateau, living largely by hunting and adopting Indigenous travel methods. It combines journal-style narrative of routes, camps, weather, wildlife encounters—caribou, bears, fish—and hard conditions on a stony, mosquito-haunted plateau, with descriptive chapters on fishermen, settlers, Inuit communities, and missionary activity. Practical notes on tracking, canoeing, and fishing alternate with natural-history observations and reflections on survival strategies in a sparsely populated, predatory landscape.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

WHEN THE CARIBOU COME TOO LATE Frontispiece
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SPRING 2
SUMMER 2
AUTUMN 4
WINTER 4
A NASCAUPEE INDIAN OF THE BARREN GROUNDS 6
THE HARMONY 16
THE HARMONY IN THE ICE 16
THE HUNTER’S GRAVE 20
THE BREAK-UP OF THE ICE AT NAIN 20
THE ARRIVAL OF THE HARMONY 22
ESKIMO KAYAKS IN NAIN BAY 22
A CURIOUS ICEBERG 26
OKAK 26
BISHOP MARTIN 28
BROTHER SCHMITT 28
CAPT. J. C. JACKSON 34
FILIPUS 34
DESERTED TEPEES 36
THE MORNING OF THE START 36
AT THE HEAD OF THE LONG LAKE 38
THE FIRST LUNCH 38
BOAZ IS INTERESTED 40
TRACKING 40
A NASTY PLACE 42
THE CLIFFS OF THE FRASER 42
THE VALLEY OF THE FRASER 44
WHERE THE FRASER BEGINS TO GROW SHALLOW 44
HARDY CROSSING THE UPPER FRASER 46
DOWN THE FRASER 48
WE CACHE THE FIRST CANOE 50
THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST NAVIGABLE STAGE 52
DRYING OUT 52
BLACK BEAR, SHOT AUGUST 5TH 56
THE BEAR’S CAVE 56
THE CANOE 1,000 FEET UP 58
HARDY AND PORTER NEARING MOSQUITO GLEN 58
CARIBOU CROSSING-PLACE 60
TAKING A “SPELL” 60
“HARD LIES THE PATH” 62
BEAR RAVINE 62
ROBERT PORTER 62
BEAR RAVINE BROOK 62
“TIRED AND IRRITABLE” 64
HARDY PREPARED AGAINST THE MOSQUITOES 68
OVER THE PLATEAU 68
CANOE CAMP 70
SANDY CAMP 70
LOOKING WESTWARD 76
COOKING OUR MID-DAY MEAL BESIDE SOME UPLAND WATER 76
WE THREW OURSELVES ON OUR FACES TO AVOID THE MOSQUITOES 76
SANDY CAMP RIVER 82
CROSSING THE LAKE 88
THE FIRST CARIBOU 94
THE GEORGE RIVER 96
THE GEORGE AT LAST 96
WHERE THE NASCAUPEES CLEAN DEERSKINS 102
INDIAN HOUSE LAKE 102
SLIPPERY BROOK 104
CAMP BESIDE SLIPPERY BROOK 104
HUNGRY DAYS AT SLIPPERY BROOK 106
TRACKS OF MIGRATING CARIBOU 106
THE LAST SPRUCE 114
A “RAISED BEACH” IN THE GEORGE VALLEY 114
RATION FOR THREE 120
OUR CHEF 120
REV. W. W. PERRETT, HOUSE-FATHER OF NAIN 130
REV. B. LENZ, HOUSE-FATHER OF HOPEDALE 130
ESKIMO BAND AT NAIN 134
NEW CHURCH BUILT BY MISSIONARIES AND ESKIMO AT NAIN 134
SNOW-HUT CAMP OF MORAVIAN MISSIONARIES ON A JOURNEY 138
A SUCCESSFUL WHITE WHALE HUNT 148
BREAKFAST AT A SUMMER CAMP 148
CHRISTIAN ESKIMO WOMAN 154
HEATHEN ESKIMO WOMAN 154
AN ESKIMO MOTHER 156
ESKIMO WOMAN IN WINTER COSTUME 156
ENTRANCE TO ESKIMO HOUSE IN WINTER 162
THE LABRADOR “SINBAD” 166
BY KOMATIK ON LAND 184
BY KOMATIK OVER THE SEA-ICE 184
CHRISTMAS AT NAIN 188
SETTLER BOYS AT PLAY 188
THE HOME OF THE NASCAUPEES 194
THE CHILDREN OF THE BARRENS 194
A MIXED MARRIAGE—NASCAUPEE AND MONTAGNAIS 198
MONTAGNAIS INDIANS 200
THE NASCAUPEE BELLE AND TWO MONTAGNAIS WOMEN 200
TYPICAL BARREN GROUND HORNS 206
LABRADOR BARREN GROUND HORNS 206
CARIBOU HEAD FROM NORTHERN QUEBEC 206
TYPICAL CARIBOU HORNS FROM NORTHERN QUEBEC 206
INTERMEDIATE TYPE BETWEEN LABRADOR BARREN GROUND AND WOODLAND 210
ROADS CUT BY MIGRATING CARIBOU 214
A BEAR-PATH OVER THE REINDEER MOSS 216
ANTLERS OF CARIBOU KILLED BY NASCAUPEE INDIANS AT A CROSSING-PLACE ON INDIAN HOUSE LAKE 216
PLAYING A SEA TROUT 226
A NAMAYCUSH 226
CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD 234