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As we descended from the hills, we saw a man and a boy in 

 a wagon and they immediately hitched horses to the wagon and 

 started on a gallop across the open prairie in the direction of 

 Lethbridge and, as we wanted to know where we were and where 

 we could find water, I started Willaim S. off in the cart to over- 

 take them and the faster he drove, the faster they travelled and 

 he had a long run before he caught up with them. The owner of 

 the wagon seemed relieved when he found that we had no connec- 

 tion with the police and he gave us the direction to the water and 

 told us that we were about eight miles from it. It was now nearly 

 dark and we travelled until night was coming on and camped 

 on the open prairie without water for either beast or man. It was 

 Saturday evening and we had never travelled on Sunday, but we 

 decided that we would start in the morning without our breakfast 

 and try to reach the water as early as possible. We found Medi- 

 cine River, a branch of the Kootenay, after about four miles, and 

 camped and enjoyed ourselves very much for the remainder of 

 the day. 



We now aimed to go south and reach the Mormon Settle- 

 ment. We started on and, in due time, reached St. Mary's River 

 and we found that it was in flood and, apparently, rapid and dan- 

 gerous. A gentleman came along who turned out to be the Col- 

 lector of Customs for the Canadian Government on the boundary 

 and he told us that he would show us the crossing, which he did. 

 We went with him and he rode his horse across and we followed 

 right after him and camped a few miles from the river and near 

 the Mormon Settlement. At first, the Mormons treated us with 

 very little respect, but, as soon as they found that I was a Govern- 

 ment official, they became very polite and we received all the 

 assistance from them we desired. 



Mormonism, as it is generally understood, in my opinion, is 

 far from being what it really is. The Mormon men are masters 

 of all they survey and the women, apparently, have what is 

 figuratively called a "good time" at home. From the Mormon 

 Settlement, we went west to the mouth of the South Kootenay 

 Pass, near Waterton Lake. Here we camped and called that our 

 "furthest west." Here we found a mountain, Sheep Mountain, 



