LONG MARCHES 205 



North-West Mounted Police we reckoned a 

 day's march at forty-two miles for saddle 

 horses. On Colonel Irvine's three hundred 

 mile march to prevent the North- West Rebel- 

 lion of 1885 we carried all fuel, forage and 

 supplies in sleighs so that the speed was re- 

 duced to that of a convoy, but it worked out 

 at forty-two miles average, ending with sixty- 

 two miles on the last day. 



A two thousand two hundred mile Viceregal 

 tour is said to have worked out at forty miles a 

 day ; but one patrol I rode in of seven hundred 

 miles only gave thirty-four miles a day for 

 average, even with occasional change of horses. 

 It was bad, shocking bad, but has it been 

 equalled by any mounted troops of Europe ? 



Marches With Remounts. On the cattle 

 industry a Roundup Outfit is commanded by 

 the owner or by his foreman. Under him 

 are three separate departments : ( i ) The cook, 

 who drives a waggon which carries the men's 

 bedding and is fitted up as a kitchen. The 

 waggon forms a moving base to the expedition, 

 and travels about ten miles a day. (2) The 

 horse wrangler is a herder in charge of the herd 

 of ponies used as remounts. (3) The working 

 force of cowboys. 



Each rider has his own string of ponies 



