ACEOSS THE SUB-ARGTICS OF CANADA 



at ISTorway House, an important Hudson's Bay Company's 

 post, situated at the northern extremity of Lake Winnipeg. 

 Two of the dog-teams procured at Oxford had been intended 

 to haul my brother and myself, and for a time they did so, 

 but the poor animals were in such a wretched condition from 

 the effects of former hard work that we preferred to walk 

 most of the time, and before we reached our destination 



A HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S TRADING-POST IN WINTER. 



considered ourselves fortunate that we escaped having to 

 haul the dogs. 



At ISTorway House the difficulties of the journey, so far 

 as my brother and I were concerned, were practically ended. 

 Enough strong, capable dogs were here secured to admit of 

 our travelling in carryalls for the remaining four hundred 

 miles still separating us from "West Selkirk, the northern 

 terminus of the railway; but, of course, the Indians had to 



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