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CONTENTS OF 



cient Lake Beaches. — Sand Dunes. — Oak Lake. — Souris Sand Hills. — 

 Night Hawk. — Bog Iron Ore. — Floods in 1852. — Bois de Vache. — Grass- 

 hoppers, infinite Multitude of. — Appearance • of the Sky, of Prairie. — 

 Little Souris Valley. — Tracks. — Turtle Mountain. — Sioux. — Character of 

 Prairie. — Souris Lakes. — Boulders. — Mandan Village. — Probable Source 

 of the Little Souris. — Character of the Souris south of the 49th Parallel. 

 — Absence of Timber on the 47th Parallel .... Page 273 



CHAP. XIV. 



FROM THE BOUNDARY LINE TO THE Qu'APPELLE LAKES VIA FORT ELLICE. 



Indian Signs. — Smell of Fire. — The Sioux. — Precautions. — "Something." — 

 Red Deer's Plead River. — The Great Prairie. Character of. — Mirage. — Birds 

 — Grasshoppers. — Limit of Burnt Land. — Pipestone Creek. — Standing- 

 Stone. — Country changed. — Forest disappeared. — Approach to the Assin- 

 niboine. — Cretaceous Rocks. — Buffalo Bull. — Fort Ellice. — McKay. — 

 Crees. — Hunters. — Provision Trading Posts. — Pemmican. — Dried Meat. — 

 Thunder Storms. — Mammoth Bones. — Ojibway Hunter. — Half-breeds. — 

 En route for the Qu'appelle Mission. — Grasshoppers. — Thunder Storm. — 

 — Trail. — Weed Ridge. — Kinni-Kinnik. — Mode of Manufacturing. — 

 Boulders. — White Crane. — Magpies. — Birds. — Dew. — Aridity of Great 

 Prairie. — Charles Pratt. — Chalk Hills. — Indian Turnip. — Qu'appelle 

 Lakes. — Fresh Arrangements. — Descent and Ascent of the Qu'appelle. — 

 Qu'appelle Mission. — Dimensions of Valley. — Character of Lakes. — 

 White Fish. — Rev. James Settee, — Garden at the Mission. — Grasshop- 

 pers. — Christian Worship. — Baptism. — " Praying Father " and (< Praying 

 Man." — Rum. — Indian Wishes. — Objection to Native Missionaries. — 

 Difficulties arising from the Prejudice of Tribes. — Plain Crees passing 

 away. — En Route ........... 302 



CHAP. XV. 



THE QU'APPELLE VALLEY. — FROM THE MISSION TO SAND HILL LAKE. 



Depth of the Fishing Lakes. — Cross-Sections. — Confervee. — Lower Lakes 66 

 Feet deep. — Birds. — Vegetation. — Water-mark. — Third and Fourth Fish- 

 ing Lakes. — Fish. — Soundings in Fourth Lake. — Fishing Lakes probably 

 once united. — Geese. — Pelicans. — Fourth Lake. — Water-mark. — Aspect 

 of Valley in 1852. — Qu'appelle River. — Prairie.— Depth of Valley. — 

 White Cranes. — Section of Alluvial Flats. — Temperature. — Character of 

 Prairie. — Birds. — Shrubs. — Antelope. — Hare. — Roses. — Grand Forks. — 

 Plain Crees, — Temperature of River. — Ice Marks. — Buffalo Tracks. — 

 Character of Stream. — Willow Bushes. — Fetid Air. — Drift Clay. — Er- 

 ratics. — Freemen's Houses. — Prairie. — Want of Timber. — Thunder 



