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passed a sleigh with a team of dogs standing frozen, 

 stark and stiff in their harness, like the people 

 suddenly turned to stone in the story of the Arabian 

 Mghts. Some passer-by had found the deserted 

 sleigh, with its dead team, and placed them upright, 

 as if still drawing the load. Upon arriving at Fort 

 Pelley they found the inhabitants starving, with but 

 half a bag of pemmican left. Here they left a sack 

 of flour. After this La Eonde was attacked by 

 bronchitis, and had great difficulty in finishing the 

 journey, arriving in the weak and emaciated condi- 

 tion described. 



We found, to our surprise, that we had, some- 

 how or other, contrived to manufacture three days 

 since our last visit to the Fort six weeks before. 

 By our reckoning we made the day of their return 

 Saturday, the 14th of March, whereas it proved to 

 be Wednesday, the 11th. 



We now heard the particulars of the Sioux 

 outbreak, and how the stage to Georgetown had 

 been attacked by them, the driver and passengers 

 scalped, and the wagon thrown into Ked Eiver. 

 This occurred only a few days after our journey by 

 it. Two thousand Sioux had come to Fort Garry for 

 ammunition, and the greatest terror and excite- 

 ment reigned in the settlement. 



These Indians were rich in the spoils of war ; 

 strings of twenty-dollar gold pieces adorned their 

 necks, and they had bags of coin, officers' epaulettes, 

 and women's finery, swords, rifles, revolvers, and 



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