PEMBINA. 



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I left the Farm in a cariole on the 20th, and was 

 sorry to find on my arrival many Swiss families 

 suffering from the want of a regular supply of 

 provisions from the plains. This was occasioned 

 in a great measure from the irregularity and 

 eagerness with which the hunters pursued the 

 buffaloes immediately they made their appear- 

 ance. Had they suffered some of the leading 

 bands to have passed in the direction they were 

 going towards the Settlement, instead of pur- 

 suing and turning them as soon as they were 

 seen in the horizon, others would probably have 

 followed, and plenty of provisions had been ob- 

 tained. But the fugitive supplies of the chase 

 are generally a poor dependance ; and the 

 colony will be greatly encouraged should the 

 domestic cattle that have been purchased arrive 

 from the United States. The difficulties which 

 the Swiss emigrants have had to encounter, and 

 the severity of the climate have disheartened 

 many of them from settling in the country, and 

 they have determined on going to a settlement 

 on the Ohio in the Spring. They attended 

 divine service on the Sabbath during my stay, 

 and expressed much gratitude for my reading 

 to them the French Testament and the minis- 

 terial duties I performed among them. 



I returned to the Farm, where a report 



