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Crop having suffered but little. Found the Colony House in a very dirty 
State. After Breakfast the Birds and myself attempted to cross the 
River in a small Bateau, an old crazy rotten Vessel. We had scarcely 
got half over when she began to sink and when within 30 Yards of the 
Shore went down. It was fortunately not sufficiently deep to drown us, 
so that we escaped with a Ducking. After Changing our Clothes we 
again embarked and got over safely. Called on Mr. Logan, formerly in 
the Service of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In a small miserable Hut 
himself, his wife an Indian Woman, and seven Children were living. 





























































Fort GARRY, MANITOBA. 
From a sketch by Lord Dufferin in 1876. 
Mr. West has done much good in persuading these Gentlemen to marry. 
Mr. Bird, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Pritchard have followed his Example, thus 
introducing more proper Feelings and preventing that Debasement of 
Mind which must, at last, have rooted out every honourable and right 
Feeling. Perhaps nothing shows Debasement of Mind so much as their 
having lived themselves in an unmarried State, giving up their Daughters 
to live the same Life as their Mothers, and this Feeling, or rather its 
Justification, had become general all over the Country. Mr. Logan’s 
Fields had suffered much from the Grasshopper. From Mr. Logans we 
rode to the French Priest, a young Man, quiet and unassuming a Mr. 
Picard des trois Maisons. The Church is under Roof with a Spire and 
poor Mr. Semple’s* wishes fulfilled :—“I must confess I am anxious to 


1 Governor-in-chief of Rupert’s Land. He was killed June 19, 1816, in the fight 
between the H. B. Co. and the N. W. Co. half-breeds under Grant at Fort Douglas. 
See the Great Company (1900), chap. xxxi. 
