THE 



NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY LAND. 



CHAPTEE I. 



Sail for Quebec — A Rough Yoyage — Our Fellow-Passengers — The 

 Wreck — Off the Banks of Newfoundland — Quebec — Up the St. 

 Lawrence — ITiagara — The Captain and the Major — Westward 

 Again — Sleeping Cars — The Red Indian — Steaming up the Mis- 

 sissippi — Lake Pippin — Indian Legend — St. Paul, Minnesota — 

 The Great Pacific Railroad — Travelling by American Stage-Wagon 

 — The Country — Our Dog Rover — The Massacre of the Settlers 

 by the Sioux — Culpability of the United States Government — 

 The Prairie — Shooting by the Way — Reach Georgetown. 



On the 19th of June, 1862, we embarked in the 

 screw-steamer Anglo-Saxon, bound from Liverpool to 

 Quebec. The day was duU and murky ; and as the 

 trader left the landing-stage, a drizzling rain began to 

 fall. This served as an additional damper to our 

 spirits, already sufficiently low at the prospect of 

 leaving home for a long and indefinite period. Un- 

 pleasant anticipations of ennui, and still more bodily 

 suffering, had risen up within the hearts of both of 

 us — for we agree in detesting a sea- voyage, although 

 not willing to go the length of endorsing the con- 

 fession wrung from that light of the American 



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