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CHAPTER III. 



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Fort Gan-y — Origin of the Red River Settlement — Tlie First Settlers — Their 

 Sufferings — The North-Westers — The Grasshoppers — The Blackbirds — 

 The Flood— The Colony in 1862— King Company — Farming at Red 

 River — Fertility of the Soil — Isolated Position of the Colony — Obstruc- 

 tive Policy of the Company — Their Just Dealing and Kindness to the 

 Indians — Necessity for a proper Colonial Government — Value 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 

 Foil Garrj' — Too Late to cross the Mountains before Winter — Our 

 Plans — Men — Horses — Bucephalus — Our Equipment — Leave Fort 

 Garry — The " Noce " — La Roude'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 . 36 



CHAPTER IV. 



Carlton — Buffalo close to the Fort — Fall of Snow — Decide to Winter near 

 White Fish Lake— The Grisly Bears— Start for the Plains — The Dead 

 Buffalo— The White Wolf— Running Buffalo Bulls— The Gathering of 

 the Wolves — Treemiss Lost — How he Spent the Night — Indian Hospi- 

 tality — Visit of the Crees — The Chief's Speech — Admire our Horses — 

 Suspicions — Stratagem to Elude the Crees — Watching Horses at Night 

 — Suspicious Guests — The Cows not to be Found — More Running — 

 Tidings of our Pursuers — Return to the Fort 59 



CHAPTER V. 



The Ball — Half-breed Finery — Voudrie and Zear return to Fort Garrj^ — 

 Treemiss starts for the Montague du Bois — Leave Carlton for Winter 

 Quarters — Shell River — La Belle Prairie — Riviere Crochet — The In- 

 dians of White Fish Lake — Kekekooarsis, or " Child of the Hawk," 

 and Keenamontiayoo, or "The Long Neck" — Their Jollification — 

 Passionate Fondness for Rum — Excitement in the Camp — Indians flock 

 in to Taste the Fire-water — Sitting out our Visitors — A Weary Day — 

 Cache the Rum Keg by Night — Retreat to La Belle Prairie — Site of 

 our House — La Ronde as Architect — How to Build a Log Hut — The 

 Chimney — A Grand Crash — Our Dismay — Milton supersedes La Ronde 

 — The Chimney Rises again— Our Indian Friends — The Frost sets in . 70 



CHAPTER VI, 



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Furnishing — CHieadle's Visitto Carlton — Treemiss there — His Musical Even- 

 ing with Atahk-akoohp — A very Cold Bath — State Visit of the Assini- 

 boines — Their Message to Her Majesty — How they found out we had 

 Rum — Fort Milton Completed — The Crees of the Woods — Contrast to 



