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village, speedily creates other impressions, aroused by 

 such fair comparisons between the humanizing influence 

 of civilization, and the degraded, brutal condition of a 

 barbarous heathen race. 



These familiar and suggestive signs of improvement in- 

 moral and social position, rapidly create a healthy tone of 

 feeling in passing from the cascades and rapids of the 

 Winnipeg, where half clad savages fish and hunt for 

 daily food, to the even flow of Eed Eiver, where Christian 

 men and women, once heathen and wild, now live in 

 hopeful security on its banks. 



I arrived at the Stone or Lower Fort about six p.m., 

 and after a little delay succeeded in procuring an Indian 

 horse, which carried me to Fort Garry, a distance of 

 twenty miles, in a little less than three hours, where I 

 found the other members of the expedition camped under 

 the walls of Fort Garry.* 



* The Blue Book, published by order of the Legislative Assembly, dated 

 10th May 1858, contains an account of the steps which were taken to send 

 supplies to Islington Mission. 



