CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Toronto to Athabasca Landing [7]
II. Down the Athabasca [19]
III. Running the Rapids [36]
IV. Chippewyan to Black Lake [49]
V. Into the Unknown Wilderness [70]
VI. The Home of the Reindeer [80]
VII. A Great Frozen Lake [90]
VIII. On the Lower Telzoa [102]
IX. Meeting with Natives [114]
X. The Eskimos [127]
XI. Customs of the Eskimos [147]
XII. Down to the Sea [172]
XIII. Adventures by Land and Sea [181]
XIV. Polar Bears [189]
XV. Life or Death? [199]
XVI. Fort Churchill [210]
XVII. On Snowshoes and Dog-Sleds [219]
XVIII. Crossing the Nelson [229]
XIX. Through the Forest and Home Again [240]
APPENDIX
I. Plants Collected on the Expedition [251]
II. Eskimo Vocabulary of Words and Phrases [273]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
J. W. Tyrrell[Frontispiece]
J. Burr Tyrrell[8]
Our Canoemen[11]
Hudson’s Bay Company’s Traders[13]
A Hudson’s Bay Company’s Interpreter[15]
A Pioneer of the North[16]
Indians of the Canadian North-West[18]
Trooper, N.-W. Mounted Police, in Winter Uniform[26]
Landing of Scows above Grand Rapid[29]
Grand Rapid, Athabasca River[31]
English-Chippewyan Half-Breed[32]
Neck Developed by the Tump-Line[35]
Shooting the Mountain Rapid, Athabasca River[40]
Store, Fort McMurray[41]
Chippewyan Camp[42]
Starving Cree Camp, Fort McMurray[44]
A Dandy of the North. A Voyageur[46]
An English-Cree Trapper[48]
Fort Chippewyan[50]
Steamer “Grahame”[52]
Landing on North Shore, Lake Athabasca[56]
A Typical Northland Father[59]
Indian Log House[64]
Cataract, Stone River[65]
A Difficult Portage[67]
Indian Rafts Loaded with Venison[69]
A. R. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., F.R.S.[74]
Scotch-Cree Half-Breed[79]
Telzoa River[82]
Rapids, Telzoa River[83]
Herd of Reindeer[85]
Ice on the Shore of Markham Lake[91]
Tobaunt Lake[94]
French-Cree Half-Breed[101]
Rapids on the Lower Telzoa[103]
Musk Oxen[104]
Eskimo “Topick,” Telzoa River[106]
Eskimo Hunters[121]
Group of Eskimos[122]
Icelandic Settler[125]
An Eskimo. Eskimo Woman[126]
Half-Breed Hunter with Wooden Snow-Goggles[134]
Section Through Igloe[136]
Eskimo Kyack[141]
Eskimo Oomiack[142]
Dog-Whip, Walrus Tusks and Bows and Arrows[146]
Harpoons, Lances and Spears[154]
Eskimo Games and Toys[163]
Half-Breed Boy[180]
Blackfoot Boy[188]
Encounter With Polar Bears[196]
The Last of Our Provisions[199]
French Salteaux Girl[209]
Rev. Joseph Lofthouse and Family[212]
Ruins of Fort Prince of Wales[216]
Ice-Block Grounded at Low Tide[218]
N.-W. M. P. “Off Duty”[228]
Half-Breed Dog-Driver[229]
Hudson’s Bay Company’s Store, York Factory[238]
Red-Deer Cow-Boy[239]
Dog-Train and Carryall[240]
Cree Hunter’s Prize[250]

Route of the Tyrrell Expedition of 1893 through Northern Canada