FOOTNOTES
[1] For further particulars regarding this most interesting locality, see the report of Mr. McConnell, published in 1893 by the Geological Survey of Canada.
[2] For a full description of geological features, etc., see J. B. Tyrrell’s Report for 1893-94, Geological Survey.
[3] My brother in revisiting the Barren Lands during the summer of 1894 was hailed by the natives many miles south of the scene of this incident as the “Kudloonah Peayouk” (good white man) who had regard for the goods of an Eskimo, and left on his “kometic” a piece of tobacco.
[4] For full geological and mineralogical details regarding this district, see J. B. Tyrrell’s report for 1893, published by the Geological Survey Department of Canada.
[5] For the benefit of anyone who may be not aware of the fact, I will explain that there are various kinds of lameness commonly produced by the prolonged use of snowshoes. In thus travelling, certain leg muscles which are only accustomed to perform light service are brought into vigorous use, and are very liable to become strained and cause much discomfort and suffering.
APPENDIX I.
CLASSIFIED LIST OF PLANTS.
Collected by J. W. Tyrrell, C.E., D.L.S.,
in 1893, along the line of route between Lake Athabasca and the west coast of Hudson Bay; with which is incorporated a small collection made in 1885 at Ashe Inlet, on the north shore of Hudson Strait, and a collection made by Miss Marjorie Lofthouse at Fort Churchill.
The species collected from the Barren Lands are marked B; those from the forest country south of the Barren Lands, or in isolated groves of timber on the banks of the river, north of the general limit of the forest, are marked W. Any species collected both from the woods and from the Barren Lands are marked W.B., or B.W., according to whether they are woodland species extending into the Barren Lands, or Arctic species extending south into the forest.
Determined by Professor John Macoun, M.A.