CHAPTEE YI. 



» 



Furnishing — Clieadle's Visit to Carlton — Treemiss there — His 

 Musical Evening with Atahk-akoohp — A very Cold Bath — State 

 Visit of the Assiniboines — Their Message to Her Majesty — How 

 they found out we had Eum — Fort Milton Completed — The Crees 

 of the Woods — Contrast to the Crees of the Plains — Indian 

 Children — Absence of Deformity — A "Moss-bag" — Kekekooarsis 

 and his Domestic Troubles — The Winter begins in Earnest — • 

 Wariness of all Animals— Poisoning Wolves — Caution of the 

 j^oxes — La Eonde and Cheadle start for the Plains — Little Mis- 

 quapamayoo — Milton's Charwoman — On the Prairies — Stalk- 

 ing Buffalo — Belated — A Treacherous Blanket — A Cold Mght 

 Watch — More Hunting — Cheadle' s Wits go Wool-gathering — 

 La Eonde's Indignation — Lost all Night — Out in the Cold again 

 — Our Camp Pillaged — Turn Homewards — Eough and Eeady 

 Travelling — ^Arrive at Fort Milton — Feasting. 



Our house now required flooring and furnisliing, and 

 it was decided that Milton and La Eonde should 

 undertake this, while Cheadle, with Bruneau, made 

 a journey to Carlton, to obtain a stock of pemmican, 

 before the snow rendered the road impassable for carts. 

 Accordingly, on the 29th the horses were sought, 

 Bucephalus captured and harnes_sed, and the party set 

 out. A bitter north wind blew strongly, and at night 

 the snow began to fall fast. They travelled with great 

 speed, reaching the banks of the Saskatchewan by dusk 

 on the following day. At the crossing they found 

 a lodge erected, and two carts laden with provisions, 

 which they judged to belong to Treemiss, who had 



