Tundra: Selections from the Great Accounts of Arctic Land Voyages, with Ill. and Maps, Volume 2Extracts from narratives of major overland expeditions to the Canadian arctic: Hearne, Mackenzie, Franklin, Back, Frank Russell, Tyrrell brothers, Stefansson, and others. |
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Foreword | 12 |
Coppermine Journey Samuel Hearnes Expedition | 27 |
River to the North Alexander Mackenzie Reaches | 83 |
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Akaitcho animals arctic coast arrived Baker Lake Barren Grounds Barren Lands Bathurst Inlet Bear Lake Bélanger boat bones cache camp Canadian canoe Cape Murray caribou carried Chipewyan Churchill cold Copper Indians Coppermine River crossed deer distance Dog-Rib dogs Dubawnt Dubawnt River east encampment Eskimos expedition explorers feet fire fish Fort Chipewyan Fort Reliance four Franklin frozen Harold Hearne Hepburn herd hill Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company hundred hunt hunters Ilavinik Ilogoak Island Jack journey Kazan River killed Lake Athabasca Mackenzie Matonabbee meat miles morning mouth musk-ox musk-oxen natives night north-west Northern Indians party portage pounds proceeded ptarmigan rapid reached reindeer rocks seen shore skins Slave Lake sleds snow snowshoes soon tents Thelon took tracks trade tripe de roche tundra Uluksak walk weather wind winter wood