THE FIRST VOLUME. 



Xlll 



Branch. — The Main Saskatchewan. — The Grand Kapid. — The Little 

 Saskatchewan. — The Qu'appelle, or Calling River. — The Little Souris. 

 — Wooded and Prairie Land. — Areas fit for Settlement. — Valley of the 

 Assinniboine. — Valley of the Saskatchewan. — East of the Riding and Duck 

 Mountains .......... Page 233 



CHAP. XII. 



THE JOURNEY TO CANADA VIA ST. PAUL. 



Isolation of the Valley of Lake Winnipeg. — The Country drained by the 

 Saskatchewan. — Routes to the Valley of Lake Winnipeg. — The Northern 

 Route. — The Southern Route. — Pembina. — St. Joseph. — Deux Rivieres. 

 — Pirie River. — The Mail. — The Red River Post Office. — Red Lake 

 River. — War Path of the Sioux and Ojibways. — Turtle Creek. — Burning 

 Prairies. — Height of Land Hills. — Caravans. — The Southern Slope. — 

 Leaf River. — Crow Wing River. — Table of estimated Distances between 

 Camps. — Crow Wing. — St. Paul. — Toronto 251 



THE 



ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION 



of 18-58. 



CHAP, XIII. 



FORT GARRY TO THE BOUNDARY LINE, VIA THE ASSINNIBOINE AND LITTLE 



SOURIS. 



Members of the Expedition. — Iroquois Indians from Caughnawaga. — De- 

 troit. — Sault Ste. Marie. — Grand Portage. — Fort Frances. — Red River. — 

 Expedition into the Interior. — The Start. — Supplies. — Prairie Ridges. — 

 Pigeon Traps. — Stony Mountain. — Birds. — Saline Efflorescence. — Cha- 

 racter of the Big Ridge. — The Assinniboine. — Grasshoppers. — Ojibway 

 Encampment. — Archdeacon Cochrane. — Prairie Portage. — Cliff Swallow. 

 — Thunder Storms. — Ojibways. — The Bad Woods. — Assinniboine Forest. 

 — River. — Rabbits. — Sandy Hills of the Assinniboine. — Latitude. — Di- 

 mensions of Valley. — Variation of Compass. — Sand Dunes. — Aspect of 

 Country. — Hail Storm. — " Smokes." — Balsam Spruce. — Pine Creek. — 

 The Little Souris. — Grasshoppers. — Fish. — Sioux. — Cretaceous Rocks. — 

 Blue Hills. — Pembina River. — Backfat Lakes. — Vast Prairie. — Prairie 

 Fires. — Horizontal Rocks. — Inoceramus. — Guelder Rose. — lignite. — An- 



