INDEX.
Aged, the respect for, [140], [236].
Amateur Surgery, [25].
Ancient Dwellings, [82].
Angakooeet or conjurors, [76], [93], [136], [160], [196], [209], [211], [214], [223], [225], [230], [234].
Arctic animals, [52], [252], [263].
— Explorers, [17], [21], [32], [33].
Astronomy, [44].
Baffin Bay, [21].
Baffin Land, [20], [23], [32].
— Dimensions, [33].
— Geology, [35].
— Scenery, [36].
Bears, [52], [92], [98], [164], [253].
— Hunting methods of, [254], [256].
Behring Strait, [21].
Birth-rate, [67].
Blankets, [74].
Bompass, Bishop, [25].
Boothia, Gulf of, [33].
Bruce, Prof. W. S., [25], [38].
Butterflies, [49].
Bylot, [18].
Characteristics of the Eskimo, [68], [135], [138], [206].
Charms, [234].
Cheerfulness, [86].
Children, [144], [158], [239].
Civilisation, dangers of, [137].
Clothing, [73], [108], [110], [112].
Coal, [35].
Communism, [137], [140], [222].
Conjurors, [76], [93], [136], [160], [196], [209], [211], [214], [223], [225], [230], [234].
— payment of, [234].
Cooking, [98].
— utensils, [74].
Davis, John, [18].
Day’s work, the, [85].
Death, [165].
— customs, [166], [168], [170], [204].
— hunting, [48], [147], [237], [240], [245].
Deserted snow-houses, [84].
Dialects, [173].
Disposition of tribes, [62].
Dog-boots, [122].
— feeding, [127], [128], [259].
— training, [120], [121], [124].
Domestic implements, [97], [98], [108].
— work, [97].
Dundee whaling fleet, [22].
Dwellings of ancient inhabitants, [82]. [[273]]
Early Arctic exploration, [17], [21], [32], [33].
— of girls, [74].
Egede, Hans, [172].
Employees, Eskimo, [137].
Ermine, [52].
Eskimo, [30], [34], [57], [59], [65], [66], [135], [137], [138], [206].
— of Labrador, [135].
— astronomy, [44].
— dogs, [119]–135.
— hospitality, [46], [100], [101], [161].
— language, [171], [178], [183].
— numerical strength, [61].
— war with Norsemen, [67].
— women, [97], [98], [102], [145], [158], [160].
Exploration, early Arctic, [17], [21], [32], [33].
Farrar, Dean, [173].
Fatalism, [228].
Fauna, [40], [41], [52], [252], [263].
Firesticks, [102].
Fleming, Rev. A. L., [113].
Folk-lore, [104], [105], [183], [195].
Fossils, [48].
Franklin, Sir John, [20], [21].
Freezing of salt water, [42].
Frobisher, shipwreck of, [19].
Funeral customs, [165], [166].
Games, [144], [217], [240], [241].
Geology, [35].
Government agents, [69]. [[274]]
Grampus, [54].
Granite, [35].
Graphite, [35].
Grinnell Land, [38].
Gulf Stream, [47].
Hair-dressing, [111].
Harness, [133].
Heaven, [207].
Heroism, [96].
Housewives, [74].
Hospitality, [46], [83], [100], [101], [161].
Hostility to white men, cause of, [68].
Hovelaque, M., [174].
Hudson Bay Fur Trading Company, [20], [23], [29].
Hunting, [85], [87], [88], [90], [92], [235], [249], [256], [257].
Hypnotism, [196], [199], [200], [215].
Ice, [26], [27],28, [42], [117].
Ice-rafts, [117].
Igloo or snowhouses, [72], [76], [78].
Improvidence, [103].
Infanticide, [143].
Infants, method of carrying, [109].
Inland sea, traces of, [48].
Interior, [37].
Ironstone, [35].
Journeys, preparation for, [147], [236], [246].
Justice, summary, [139], [140]. [[275]]
Kagge or singing house, [217], [243].
Kettles, [74].
Kummotik or heavy sled, [132], [236].
Kyak, [112], [113], [114], [256], [257].
— management of, [113], [115].
Labrador, Eskimo of, [135].
Lakes, [51].
— agglutinative character of, [178].
— system of writing, [175].
Laws and customs, [140]–141.
Letters, Eskimo, [176].
Marine life, [48].
Marriage customs, [142], [155], [156], [158], [162], [213], [214].
Mask, conjurors’, [211].
Migration of birds, [50].
Miocene Period, [39].
Moravian missions, [183].
Marrett, Dr, [194].
Mosquito, [49].
— death from, [50].
Musk-ox industry, proposed, [136].
Names, [144].
— of seasons, [46].
Nandla, the blind huntsman, [150], [153]. [[276]]
Nanook, the Great Bear, [44].
Nansen, Fridtjof, [183].
— on the Arctic summer, [36].
— on the Eskimo, [65].
Narwhal, the, [55].
Norsemen, war with, [67].
Northern lights, [45].
North-west passage, [17], [20], [21].
— discovery of, [21].
Occultism, [196], [197], [200], [215].
— a common error about, [111].
Ooloo, or knife, [108], [113].
Operation, an amateur surgical, [25].
— a native, [227].
Oral tradition, [59].
Origin of Eskimo, [61].
Ornaments, personal, [110].
Peace and plenty, [146], [147].
Pintailed duck, song of, [249], [250].
Pleistocene period, [58].
Poetry, [241].
Polar-bears, [164], [253], [254].
Poppy, yellow, [37].
Primitive barter, [63].
Primitive peoples, pacific nature of, [69].
Ptarmigans and ducks, contest of, [242], [244].
Purple-sandpiper, the, [50].
Purgatory, [207].
Pyrites, [35].
Recuperative powers, [226].
Red fox, [51].
Red Indians, [67].
Reindeer, [40], [41], [52], [244], [245].
Religion, [205], [206], [207], [265], [270].
Respect for the old, [140], [236].
Richardson, [20].
Ross, Commander Sir John, [20], [21], [23], [70].
Sacrifice, human, [193].
Sails, [238].
Salmon-trout, [47].
Salt water, freezing of, [42].
Sandpiper, [50].
Sanitation, lack of, [81].
Scurvy, [25].
Sea unicorn, [55].
Seals, [52], [87], [88], [90], [91], [235], [236].
— hunting, [85], [87], [88], [90], [91], [93], [94], [95].
— by bears, [90], [91], [255], [256].
Seasons, [41].
— legend of, [184], [187], [193].
Sense of danger, [94].
Seorapik, story of, [149].
Servants, Eskimo as, [137], [138].
Sex equality, [102].
Singing, [183], [217], [220], [242], [243].
Sinniktâkvik or temporary snowhouse, [82].
Skins, the preparation of, [99], [113], [236], [237].
Sleds, [118], [131], [132], [133].
— ancient form of, [134].
Sleeping benches, [78], [143].
Snow bunting, [50].
Snowhouses, [76], [77], [80], [81], [82].
Social habits, [99].
Souls of inanimate objects, [205].
Spears, [114].
Spirits, [165], [166], [193], [207], [252], [253].
— language of, [167].
Spring in the Arctic, [43], [235].
Stockings, [109].
Stone-age, [57].
Strangers, treatment of, [46], [161].
Suicide of the aged, [149].
Sukso or porch, [78].
Summer, [44], [145], [146], [238], [240].
Superstitions, [145], [159], [165], [168], [169], [184], [194], [195], [215], [230], [233].
Supreme spirit, the, [206].
Surgery, amateur, [25].
— native, [224].
Syllabic characters, [175], [176], [178].
Tailor, an Eskimo, [110].
Tents, or tupiks, [72], [73], [74].
Tongak, or spirits, [165], [193], [207], [252].
Toodlânak, story of, [105], [106].
Tooneet or ancient inhabitants, [64], [65], [82].
Trapping, [261]–262.
Travelling, [133], [163], [239].
Trial, an Eskimo, [139].
Tribal intercourse, [62].
Tribes, disposition of, [62].
Tug of war, [217].
Tupik, [72], [73], [74]. [[279]]
Umiaks or heavy boats, [116], [117], [237], [238], [246].
Unicorn, sea, [55].
Unwritten law, [140].
Voluntary starvation, [103].
Water, [98].
Wedding party, an ill-fated, [164].
Whale-bone sled, [133].
Whalers, Scottish, [22], [24].
Wick, lamp, [97].
Windows, [79].
Winter-quarters, [75], [78], [81].
— their hunting methods, [53].
— attacks by, [246], [247], [248].
Women, [67], [81], [89], [100], [102], [158], [160].
Writing, [175].