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team, the guide running before, and the two Iroquois 

 sometimes before and sometimes behind, we travelled on 

 an almost due south course over the ice along the shore 

 of Lake Winnipeg. About the same time that we 

 started for the south, the other section set out across 



e lake to the westward for the mouth of the Saskat- 

 chewan River. 



Our teams, of four dogs each, were for the most part 

 ne powerful animals, and we soon found there was 

 no necessity for my brother or myself exerting our- 

 selves more than we desired. The teams travelled all 

 day, and, indeed, day after day, at a rapid trot, some- 

 times breaking into a run, so that it gave the Indians 

 all they could do to keep up with them. 



Taking smooth and rough together we made an aver- 

 ge of about forty miles per day, and some days 

 as much as forty-six or forty-seven miles. When we 

 had made about half the distance to Selkirk, and were 

 in the neighborhood of a fishing station at the mouth of 

 Berens River, poor Pierre played out ; but, most oppor- 

 tunely, we met a man teaming fish to Selkirk and 

 secured a passage for him, while we ourselves pushed 

 on. When we had made another hundred miles Louis, 

 the remaining Iroquois, also became crippled. Arrange- 

 ments were made to have him, too, driven in with a 

 horse and sleigh, and without delay we pursued our 

 journey. 



At length, after along and rapid trip, which occupied 

 ten days, on the evening of the 1st of January, 1894, 

 under the light of the street lamps of the little town, 

 our teams trotted up the streets of West Serkirk, and 



