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merited with bright tips and tags. To see a grave 

 and respectable elder calmly sit down and solemnly 

 paint his face like an insane clown, and then stick 

 his hair full of feathers like a bedlamite, is very 

 amusing. They plait their hair in long tails, which 

 they sometimes twist round their necks like collars ; 

 they have fur caps and fine bead garters, and smoke 

 execrably foul pipes, made either from a black stone 

 which is found in Racing Lake, or from a red stone 

 which is found near North-West Angle. " Foul as 

 an Indian's pipe " would be a good simile. Their 

 blankets are generally scarlet and bright green, and 

 altogether they are tremendous swells, and are for 

 evei consulting the looking-glasses with birch-bark 

 covers which dangle from their necks. Good bead- 

 work is made with a shuttle, but worked with a 

 needle. 



' Reached North-West Angle, a rascally encroach- 

 ment of the Yankees into British territory. It is a 

 low, marshy, narrow angle of the lake, and as dismal 

 a place as one could wish to see in a summer's day. 

 Here we sent back the birch-bark, and then drove in 

 a light waggon till one P.M. through the swampy 

 forest, being devoured the whole way by mosquitoes. 



' lOth. — After an hour or two's smoke in a shanty 

 we started and drove through the mixed forest and 

 swampy prairie, bright with Michaelmas daisies and 

 golden rod, and swarming with grouse and snipe, to 

 Fort Garry, which we reached at sunset. There is 

 not much to be said about Fort Garry. It is situated 



