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team, the guide running before, and the two Iroquois 
sometimes before and sometimes behind, we travelled on 
an almost due south course over the ice along the shore 
of Lake Winnipeg. About the same time that we 
started for the south, the other section set out across 
the lake to the westward for the mouth of the Saskat- 
chewan River. 
Our teams, of four dogs each, were for the most part 
fine powerful animals, and we soon found there was 
no necessity for my brother or myself exerting our- 
selves more than we desired. ‘The teams travelled all 
day, and, indeed, day after day, at a rapid trot, some- 
times breaking into a run, so that it gave the Indians 
all they could do to keep up with them. 
Taking smooth and rough together we made an aver- 
age of about forty miles per day, and some days 
as much as 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 River, poor Pierre played out; but, most oppor- 
tunely, 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. Arrange- 
ments were made to have him; too, driven in with a 
horse and sleigh, and without delay we pursued our 
journey. 
At length, after along and rapid trip, which occupied 
ten days, on the evening of the Ist of January, 1894, 
under the light of the street lamps of the little town, 
our teams trotted up the streets of West Serkirk, and 
