ACEOSS THE SUB-AKCTICS OF CANADA 



forty-six or forty-seven miles. When we had made about 

 half the distance to Selkirk, and were in the neighborhood 

 of a fishing station at the mouth of Berens Kiver, poor 

 Pierre played out; but, most opportunely, we met a man 

 teaming .fish to Selkirk and secured a passage for him, 

 while we ourselves pushed on. When we had made another 

 hundred miles, Louis, the remaining Iroquois, also became 

 crippled. Arrangements were made to have him, too, driven 

 in with a horse and sleigh, and without delay we pursued 

 our journey. 



At length, after a long and rapid trip, which occupied ten 

 days, on the evening of the 1st of January, 1894, under the 

 light of the street lamps of the little town, our teams trotted 

 up the streets of West Selkirk, thus completing a canoe and 

 snowshoe journey of three thousand two hundred miles. 



I need hardly say that the telegraph office was soon found, 

 and messages despatched to anxious friends, who, having 

 heard, nothing from us for many months, had begun to 

 entertain grave fears for our safety. Thirteen hundred 

 miles more of travel by rail brought, us home again after 

 an absence of just eight months. 



OUR PARTY ON THE RETURN TRIP. 



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