Index 336
Nutritionists on maximum fat content in diet, 138-139 "Observations on Three Cases of Scurvy," 147 Oil, use of, by Eskimos, 23, 24
Padcn, Irene I)., on pioneer women's prejudices against native foods, 281-282 Pcabody Museum expedition to Iceland, 92 Peacock, Thomas Love, 116 Pearl, Raymond, 61, 62 Peary, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin, 16, 256-258, 309-311; his "Secrets of Polar Travel" quoted on pemmican, 257-258, 291, 299 Peary Land, 257
Peel River-Bell River portage, S26229 Pembina, Pcmmican Capital of the
Fur Trade, 213, 202; Libby on, *>4 Pemmican, 118, 173, 177, 178-313: adulteration of, 190, 191-192, 242243, 278-280; Peary on, 191; as antiscorbutic, 216, 219, 220-221, 245; as antiscorbutic, Auld on, 220; Army controversy over, 135; for aviators, 265-267; beef, 272; berry, see types of; Canadian Army tests of, 303-311; Capital, Pembina, 202, 213; as cold weather food, 283-285, 308-309, 312; daily amount required, 212-213; danger of overeating, 291-292; definitions of, 182; possible earliest report of, 180-181; export from Red River Settlement forbidden, 215: fat content of, 186, 187, 189-190; used by Hanson, 138139; in Yukon Cold Rush, 246, 272; "holiday," 182, 217; as hot weather food, 178, 232, 313; ingredients of, 182; invention of, 195196; Kelsey possible first user of, 181; most concentrated food, 179; "Navy Pemmican," 293-294; palatability of, 298, 299, 300, 302; "piece," 187, 226; pioneer women prejudiced against, 281-282, 283; prepa-
Index ration of, 185-187, 217; preparation of, in Great Britain, 242-243; preservability of, 179-80, 188-189, 193-
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194; Henry on, 193-194; rancidity
Pof
of fat in, see "Fat in Pemmican"; tawhide bags for, 186, 188; supposed enzyme action in, 289; types of, 92, 94, 189. 217, 217, 278; "unsuitable" for Army and N.ivy, 274; use of buffalo meat in making, 181,
n Por
182, 186; War, First. iHi.|-i82i. 180. 204-224; War, Second. 180, 274-313;
a waterproof food, 237 Pemmican, Comments on, by Ballantyne, 235; Carnegie, 247-2^; Chittenden, 269-270. 299; De Voto, 198200, 282; Downes, 301-302; Kncyclopacdia Brilannica, 185; Grant, 249252, 268; Hanson, 135-1.12, 290-291; Harmon, 238; Henderson, 282; Henry. 193-194; Hornaday, 200-201; Johnson, 307; Kark, 307; Lewis, 307; McClintock, 245-256; Mclntire, 293-294; MacKay, 215-216; Mackenzie, 216-217; Merk, 236-237; Morton, 181; Oxford Dictionary,
mican, 253-254 Portage la Loche, 233 Portage des Prairies, 222 Post, Augustus, on use of pemmican in ballooning, 255-256
Pozi
Pric Prie m
Quartermaster General of U. S. Army, 118
Quick freezing of foods in North. 35 Qua n
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Red mi
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257-258, 291, 299; Pope, 253-254; Post, 255-256; Powell, 252-253; Priestley, 259-260; Quartermaster General, 290; Richardson, 241-244; Schley and Soley, 284; Slaughter, 202; Stcele, 271-272; Thompson, 218-219, 268; Wentworth, 193 Pemmican, use of, by Franklin, 240; Hudson's Bay Company, 183, 239243; polar explorers, 240, 244-246, 283-284; Simpson, 240; U. S. Army, 178, 296, 297; U. S. Navy, 178; in ballooning, 255-256; Boer War, 262-264; in war, 261-273 "Pemmican" (candy bar), as used by U. S. Navy, 293-29) "Pemmican-eater," 230 footnote
M. Rich Rich Rich
Point Barrow, 240 Polar bear liver, "poisonous," 33; vitamins in, 33 Polar bear, parts of, preferred, 33
Pope, Brevet Captain John, on pcm-
Powell, Major John Wesley, 252-253; on pemmican, 253, 269 Poznanski, Gitcl, 174 Price, Wcslon, 9 Priestley, Raymond, 258-260; on pemmican, 259-260
Por Posi ir Pow 01
182, 184-185; Paden, 281-282; Peary,
"Piece," 226, 228; see also Pemmican "piece" Pleasure, M. A., 95
Pond, Peter, 211; establishes trading post in Athabaska region, 209
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337 Scott, Robert Falcon, first expedition, 259; scurvy on, 162, 165-167; second expedition, 259, 267-269. 283 "Scuify," 174 Scurvy, 87, 88, 89, 143-177; absence of, among Eskimos and Indians, '74-'75: absence from Shackleton expedition, 167-169: appetite in, 146; among armies, 162; causes of. 148, 153, 162, 165; cripples Shackleton, 166; cure of, 149, 150, 155-156, 162-163, 169-172; cured by fresh meat, 170-171; effect of, on gums, 144, 145, 146, 158, 170, 171; in Europe, 173-174; freedom from, on fish diet, 52; common views about,
41, 63; death from, described, 146; during gold rushes, 162-163;
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Hudson's Day Company posts, so8, Rabbit "starvatron," 31 Radisson, Picrrc Esprit, 208
Rae, John, 244 Red River of the North, 232. 249 Red River Settlement, export of pemmican from, forbidden, 215, 220; Pcmmican War at, 221-223; *ee a'so Macdonell, Miles; Selkirk, Earl of
Richardson, A. J. H., 219-220 Richardson, Henry B., 63 Richardson, Sir John, 239, 241, 244;
on pemmican making in Great Britain, 242-243; on pemmican. Âť4S-*44 Rickets, 13 Riel Rebellions, 270 Ritchie, S. G., 94, 101
Ross, Sir John, 244 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 126 footnote, 271, 272 Rupert's Land, 205 Rupp, V. R., 63 Russell Sage Institute of Pathology. 62; see also Bellevue Hospital tests Russian America Comapny, 224 Sabine, Sir Edward, 241 Salt, Eskimo dislike of, 50; "necessity" of, in diet, 41-42; Stcfansson's longing for. 49-50 Schley, Rear Admiral Winfield Scott, on pcniiiiican, 284
212; infantile, 144; W. C. Davison
on, 144; meat as alleged cause of, 149-150, 165; in modern times, 162177; in North America, 174; prcventatives, 148, in Puerto Rico, 154; psychiatric symptoms of, 144,
145; in Shakespeare's time, 143-161; in South America, 174; symptoms of, 144; see also antiscorbutics Scurvy on Anson's voyage, 151-153;
Barents expedition, 154-155; Magellan voyage, 150, 162; Munk expedition, 155, 157-160; Nares expedition, 164, 245; Scott expeditions.
162, 165-169; Stefansson expedition, 169-172; Willoughby expedition, 154
Scurvy, comments on, by Cook, 163164; Cullen, 149-150; Evans, 169; Henderson, 282; Hanson, 137-138;
Jolliffe, 145 ff.; Spilsbury, 150; de Trobriand, 176-177 "Scurvy fellow," 146, 166
Seal, exclusive diet of, 54 ff. Seal fat, 30 Seal bones, marrow of, 76 Seals, 30-32, 76 Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 207; granted land in Red River Valley, 214, 220; his representative killed in 1'einmican War, 2ÂŤi Semple Massacre, 222-223; Michael Herien on. 222-223