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mound, but soon afterwards we came to five or six more houses, 

 the inhabitants of which turned out armed and rode out to 

 meet the Indians, a body of nearly twenty men, and we were 

 safe. 



I do not suppose that two more miserable-looking wretches 

 ever rode into a settlement than ourselves. For four days we 

 had not used water, and our clothes were dirty and a mass of 

 rags ; then, too, my hair had not been cut for nearly a year, and 

 I was the colour of light mahogany. We stopped at the first 

 house, and one of the women dressed my arm for me, after 

 which we went to bed and stayed there for nearly twenty hours ; 

 then we had a good meal of pork and potatoes, and in the 

 afternoon rode on to Fort Garry, where we attracted a good 

 deal of attention, our horses being mere bags of bones. 



Riding through the settlement, for there was no town there 

 at that time, I met a good many people whom I had known 

 the previous year, and all of them were very anxious to know 

 where I had turned up from, and why I was in my present 

 condition ; but I only answered them by asking for the baker's 

 shop, as some new bread seemed to me the one thing of all 

 others that I most desired, for no one who has not gone with- 

 out it for months can imagine what the craving for it is. I had 

 eaten nothing but " galette " in camp or in my log cabin 

 during the winter, and at Fort Carlton had only got rolls made 

 with soda. 



I may as well mention that <f galette" is made of flour, 

 water, and " saleratus," mixed as dough and formed into flat 

 cakes, one of which is then put into the frying-pan, and this is 

 placed in front of the fire; when the cake gets stiff it is taken 

 out and put by the fire with a stick to keep it up, another is 



