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CHAP. XIX. 



FROM THE NEPOWEWIN MISSION ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO 

 FORT ELLICE. 



Sandy Strip on the Saskatchewan. — Banksian Pine. — Indian Idols. — Medi- 

 cine Feasts. — Rev. Henry Budd. — His Journal. — Fine Country. — Long 

 Creek. — Old Forest. — Fires, Extent of. — Extension of the Prairies. — 

 Former Extent of wooded Country. — Effect of Fires. — Long Creek. — 

 Hay Ground. — Moles. — Humidity of Climate. — A Bear. — Source of Long 

 Creek. — The Birch Hills. — Flowers. — Aspect of Country. — Carrot River. 

 — The Lumpy Hill of the "Woods. — Lakes. — The wooded Country. — 

 Former Extent of. — Limits of good Land — Raspberries. — Mosquitoes. — 

 The Height of Land. — Continuation of the Eye-brow Hill Range. — Valley 

 inosculating with the South Branch and Main Saskatchewan. — Grass- 

 hoppers. — Character of the Country. — Birds. — Destruction of Forests. — 

 The Big Hill. — Boulders. — Limit of wooded Country. — Belts of Wood. 

 — Great Prairie. — Character of the Country. — Salt Lakes. — The Touch- 

 wood Hills. — Beautiful Country. — Excellent Soil. — The Quill Lakes. — 

 Flowers. — White Cranes. — The Heart Hill. — The Last Mountain. — The 

 Little Touchwood Hills. — Lakes. — Touchwood Hill Fort. — Ka-ou-ta-at- 

 tin-ak. — Touchwood Hills Range. — Long Lake. — Devil's Lake. — Garden 

 at the Fort. — White-Fish in Long Lake. — Burnt Forest. — Grasshoppers. 

 — Winter Forage for Horses. — White-Fish. — Buffalo. — Climate of Touch- 

 wood Hills — Humidity of. — Medicine Man. — " Wampum." — Trail to 

 Fort Ellice. — Marshes. — Little Touchwood Hills. — Character of Country 

 Changes. — Depressions. — Pheasant Mountain. — File Hill. — Character of 

 the Country. — Heavy Dews. — Cut- Arm Creek. — Willow Prairie. — Little 

 Cut- Arm Creek. — Rolling Prairie. — Attractive Country. — Spy Hill. — 

 Boulders. — Aspen Groves increasing. — Sand Hills. — The Assinniboine. 



The trail from Fort k la Corne to the old track leading 

 from Fort Ellice to Carlton House ascends the hills form- 

 ing the banks of the deep eroded valley of the Saskatche- 

 wan in the rear of the fort. It passes through a thick forest 

 of small aspens until near the summit, when a sandy soil 

 begins, covered with Banksian pine and a few small oak. 



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