CHAPTEE III. 



Fort Garry— Origin of tlieEed Eiver Settlement — The First Settlers 

 — Their Sufferings -The North- Westers — The Grasshoppers — The 

 Blackbirds— The Flood— The Colony in 1862— King Company- 

 Farming at Ked River — Fertility of the Soil — Isolated Position of 

 the Colony — Obstructive Policy of the Company — Their Just 

 Dealing and Kindness to the Indians — Necessity for a proper 

 Colonial Government — Yalue of the Country — French Canadians 

 and Half-breeds^Their Idleness and Frivolity — Hunters and 

 Voyageurs — Extraordinary Endurance — The English and Scotch 

 Settlers — The Spring and Fall Hunt — Our Life at Fort Garry — 

 Too late to cross the Mountains before Winter — Our Plans — Men 

 — Horses — Bucephalus — Our Equipment — Leave Fort Garry — 

 The "Noce" — La Ronde's last Carouse — Delightful Travelling — 

 A Night Alarm — Vital Deserts — Fort Ellice — Delays — Making 

 Pemmican — Its Value to the Traveller — Swarms of Wild-Fowl — 

 Good Shooting — The Indian Summer — A Salt Lake Country — 

 Search for Water — A Horse's Instinct — South Saskatchewan — 

 Ai'rive at Carlton. 



Fort Gtarry — by which we mean the building itself, 

 for the name of the Fort is frequently used for the 

 settlement generally — is situated on the north bank of 

 the Assiniboine river, a few hundred yards above its 

 junction with Eed Eiver. It consists of a square 

 enclosure of high stone walls, flanked at each angle by 

 round towers. Within this are several substantial 

 wooden buildings — the Grovemor's residence, the gaol, 

 and the storehouses for the Company's furs and goods. 

 The shop, where articles of every description are sold, 

 is thronged from morning till night by a crowd of 



