THE SECOND VOLUME. 



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portance of. — Aspect of Country. — The Narrows. — Manitobah Island. — 

 Dimensions of. — Oak. — Rock Formation. — Fossils. — Indian Superstitions. 

 Fairies. — Signals. — Arrival of Boat at Manitobah Island. — Coast of Lake 

 Manitobah. — Old Mission Station. — Unfitness of this part of the Coast of 

 the Lake for Settlement. — Indian Liberality. — Monkman's Point. — Cause 

 of the Formation of Marshes. — II. B. Co. Breeding Establishment. — Oak 

 Point. — Dimensions of Lake Manitobah. — Prairie bordering the Lake. — 

 Shoal Lake. — Character of the Country. — Big Ridge. — Little Ridge. — 

 Arrive at the Settlements. . ... . . . Page Go 



CHAP. XXVII. 



WINTER JOURNEY WITH DOGS FROM FORT GARRY TO CROW WING. 



Arrival of Lord Richard Grosvenor, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Mr. Henry 

 Danby Seymour, M.P., and the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, at Fort Garry. — 

 Buffalo Hunting. — Lord Grosvenor's Expedition to Fort Ellice. — Prepara- 

 tions for a Winter's Journey. — John Monkman. — Cline. — Daily Allowance 

 of Dogs. — A Winter Road. — A Cariole. — A Sledge. — The Driver. — ■ 

 Making the Road. — Prospects of a Race to Crow Wing. — The Start. — 

 Fort Pembina. — Mr. Mackenzie. — The Woods and Prairies in the Winter 

 Season. — Temperature at Pembina. — A Camp in the Snow. — Preparations 

 for the Night. — Mocassins. — The Morning Start. — Making a Cache in Pine 

 River. — Dogs watching the Operation. — They return at Night to break 

 open the Cache. — Terrible Fate of Mr. Mackenzie in Dec, 1859, frozen to 

 Death in attempting to reach Pembina from Pine Creek. — Running across 

 a Prairie with the Thermometer at 20° below Zero. — Appearance of the 

 Party after the "Run."' — Appearance of a Camp during the Night. — ■ 

 Watchfulness of the Dogs. — Catching and harnessing them in the Morn- 

 ing. — Treatment of Dogs by the Half-breeds. — Overturning a Cariole. — 

 Traveling in a Snow Storm. — Preparing to Camp in a Snow Storm. — 

 Dogs " lying close" after a Fall of Snow during the Night. — Sagacity of 

 these Animals. — Red Lake.— News of Monkman's Party behind us. — The 

 Roman Catholic Missionary frozen to Death two D&ys previous to our 

 Arrival at Red Lake Mission. — Indians reading the History of the Mis- 

 sionary's Journey from his Tracks on the Ice. — Indians relating the 

 History of his Journey. — Savage Mimicry. — The Rev. Laurenz Lautiger, 

 the Roman Catholic Missionary. — The Height of Land. — Cass Lake. — 

 Arrival of Monkman's Party at Midnight. — Leech Lake. — A Dance. — 

 The last Night in the AVoods. — The last Day's Rim. — Pine Woods. — 

 Morning. — A twenty-mile Gallop. — Crow Wing 81 



