LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| IN ORIGINAL VOLUME | |
| A NORTH-WEST VIEW OF PRINCE OF WALES'S | |
| FORT IN HUDSON'S BAY, NORTH AMERICA | To face p. [61] |
| INDIAN IMPLEMENTS | " [134] |
| A WINTER VIEW IN ATHAPUSCOW LAKE | " [232] |
| INDIAN IMPLEMENTS | " [310] |
| A MAP EXHIBITING Mr. HEARNE'S TRACKS | |
| IN HIS TWO JOURNIES FOR THE DISCOVERY | |
| OF THE COPPER MINE RIVER | |
| IN THE YEARS 1770, 1771, AND 1772, UNDER | |
| THE DIRECTION OF THE HUDSON'S BAY | |
| COMPANY | At end |
| PLAN OF THE COPPER MINE RIVER | " |
| PLAN OF ALBANY RIVER IN HUDSON'S BAY | " |
| PLAN OF MOOS RIVER IN HUDSON'S BAY | " |
| PLAN OF SLUDE RIVER | " |
| ADDITIONS IN PRESENT VOLUME | |
| MAP OF PART OF NORTHERN CANADA AS | |
| AT PRESENT KNOWN | At end |
| Drawn on the same projection and scale as Hearne's | |
| general Map | |
| MAP OF COPPERMINE RIVER | At end |
| As surveyed by Sir John Franklin in 1821. From | |
| "Franklin's First Journey," London, 1823. | |
| MAP OF PART OF NORTH AMERICA | To face p. [18] |
| Showing Hearne's course as first published. From | |
| "Cook's Third Voyage," 1784. | |
| MAP OF PART OF NORTH AMERICA, 1787 | " [18] |
| From Supplement to "Pennant's Arctic Zoology." | |
| PLAN OF FORT PRINCE OF WALES AS IT | |
| APPEARED IN 1894. By J. B. Tyrrell | page [22] |
| MAP OF YATH-KYED LAKE AND PART OF | |
| KAZAN (CATHAWHACHAGA) RIVER. By | |
| J. B. Tyrrell | To face p. [86] |
| MAP OF DUBAWNT LAKE AND PART OF | |
| DUBAWNT RIVER. By J. B. and J. W. | |
| Tyrrell | " [90] |
| HEARNE'S NAME ON ROCK AT CHURCHILL | " [4] |
| SAMUEL HEARNE | " [25] |
| DUBAWNT LAKE | " [96] |
| DUBAWNT RIVER WHERE HEARNE CROSSED | |
| IT | " [96] |
| A SOUTH-WEST VIEW OF PRINCE OF WALES'S | |
| FORT | " [106] |
| WHOLDIAH LAKE | " [120] |
| GROVE OF SPRUCE WITHIN BARREN LANDS | " [120] |
| ARTILLERY LAKE, LAST WOODS | " [138] |
| ARTILLERY LAKE | " [138] |
| BLOODY FALLS, COPPERMINE RIVER | " [178] |
| From "Franklin's First Journey," p. 360. | |
| COPPER IMPLEMENTS FROM COPPERMINE | |
| RIVER | " [178] |
| HERD OF CARIBOU ON BARREN LANDS NEAR | |
| DUBAWNT RIVER | To face p. [234] |
| DRYING CARIBOU MEAT | " [234] |
| WOODS OF SPRUCE AND LARCH, SOUTH-WEST | |
| OF CHURCHILL, IN WINTER | " [288] |
| STONY BARREN LANDS IN SUMMER | " [288] |
| CHIPEWYAN INDIANS FROM KAZAN RIVER | " [296] |
| VALLEY OF THLEWIAZA RIVER | " [296] |
| FORT PRINCE OF WALES, GATE | " [328] |
| FORT PRINCE OF WALES, INTERIOR | " [328] |
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Samuel Hearne, the author of the book here republished, is one of the most interesting characters to be met with in the annals of exploration in North America. When a young man, only twenty-four years old, he was sent on foot to explore the interior of a great continent. Though he knew nothing of mines or minerals, he, like many a man similarly equipped since his day, was to report on a great mining property. Naturally his report on the "mine" of copper is of little value, but his account of Northern Canada and of the life of the natives who inhabited it is the first published detailed description of any portion of the interior of Western Canada. Very few men of his age accomplished so much, and fewer still have published such admirable narratives of their enterprises.
All that we know of Hearne's early life is contained in an obituary notice which appeared in the European Magazine and London Review for June 1797, entitled "Some Account of the late Mr. Samuel Hearne, Author of 'A Journey from Prince of Wales Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean, undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of Copper Mines, a North-West Passage, &c., in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772.'"