4 ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION. 



the prairies was necessarily occupied at what may be ap- 

 propriately termed Selkirk Settlement, in writing reports 

 and making preparations for a voyage through Lake 

 Winnipeg, the Little Saskatchewan Eiver, and Lake 

 Manitobah. to the Salt Eegion on the shores of Winni- 

 pego-sis Lake. Mr. Dickinson prepared for an ex- 

 ploration of the country between the Lake of the Woods 

 and Eed Eiver, and between the Assinniboine and the 

 49th parallel. Both parties were ready by the 18th, and 

 at noon started on their respective routes. 



Freighter's Boat 



In a Eed Eiver freighter's boat of four tons' burden, 

 with a crew of seven men, and accompanied by Mr. 

 Fleming, I reached a point about seven miles below the 

 Indian Settlement, being aided by a fair wind, and camped 

 at dusk. On the following morning, the temperature of 

 the air at sunrise was 63°, of the river, 59°. We arrived 

 at the mouth of the river at 10 a.m., and hastened to avail 



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