lashing skin cover, 186, 188, 190 (see also sewing, stitching) lathing (see sheathing) light (express) canoe, 137, 141 _London Chronicle_, 4 long-nose canoe, 125, 130, 132 longitudinal strength (see gunwale, keelson chine, keel, stringers, etc.) Loucheux Indians, 154; kayak-form canoe, 161, 166 MacKenzie, Alexander, 13 MacKenzie Basin canoe, 159, 161, 162 Mackenzie River, 154, 181, 191 Mackenzie River kayak, 202, 204 _maître canot_ (see fur-trade canoe), 99, 106, 122, 135, 138, 151, 153 Malecite Indians, 4, 10; composition of tribe, 70; canoe, 114, 115; sheathing, 34; construction, 36-57; bark covers over gunwale ends, 48; described, 70-88; ends, 70, 76, 77; of spruce bark, 72; temporary (skin), 219, 221; dimensions of, 73 ff., 78, 79 Manitoba, 99, 132 maple, hard, splitting qualities, 17 Marquette, Father Jacques, 8 Mariners' Museum (Newport News, Va.), 4, 5, 187 mast, Micmac, 65, 66, 67; tripod, 182 Matachewan Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 Matagama Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 maul, 19, 23 McGill University Museum, 4 measurement, of canoes, early, 7, 8, 9; units of (French), 8, 36; Indian, 36, 37, 50, 51, 92, 93 Melville Peninsula, 204 Memphremagog, Lake, 88 Menominee Indians, 122, 123 Micmac Indians, 10, 12, 58 canoe, 12, 27; sheathing, 34; described, 58-69; ends, 58, 59; form, 59; construction, 62, 63; range, 65 migrations, Indian, 5; effect on canoes, 27 Missinaibi River, 132 Missinaibi Post (Hudson's Bay Company), 151 Mohigan Indians, 88 Montagnais Indian canoe, 34, 99, 100, 106 Montreal, 8, 10, 13 Moose Factory (Hudson's Bay Company Post), 132 moosehide canoe, 72, 219 multi-chine hull, kayak, 154, 175, 191, 199 nabiska (rabeska; see fur-trade canoe), 122, 135 _nadowé chiman_ (see fur-trade canoe), 136 Nahane Indian kayak-form canoe, 159 nail, in canoe construction, 66, 69, 117 narrow-bottom canoe, 113, 114, 135, 154-158; Northwest, 155, 157; spruce bark, 158 Nascapee Indians, 99, 100 National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, England), 12 Netsilik kayak, 204 New Bedford whaleboat, 187 Nipigon, Lake, 123 North Alaskan whaling umiak, 187, 188 North Bay (Ontario), 125 north canoe (see fur-trade canoe), 135 North West Company, 136, 138, 143, 152 North West narrow-bottom canoe (see narrow-bottom), 155-157 Norton Sound kayak, 200 Nunivak Island kayak, 192, 197, 199, 200 Oar, umiak, 182, 183, 187 ff. Ojibway Indians, 122 canoe, sheathing, 34; construction, 122-131, 171 Oka, Lake, 113 one-piece bark canoe, 212 open-water canoe, 58; sails, 64; dimensions, 65 Ossipee Indians, 88 Ottawa River, 12, 113 _Outing Magazine_, 4 outwale (see gunwale) owner's mark, 83, 84, 85 overhang, in ends of kayak-form canoe, 159