82 ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION. 



trip into the prairies in search of buffalo. The aristo- 

 cratic hunters consisted of Lord Eichard Grosvenor, Lord 

 Frederick Cavendish, Henry Danby Seymour, Esq., 

 M.P., and the Honourable Evelyn Ashley. They were 

 successful in meeting with and killing buffalo a short 

 distance south of the boundary line, in the direction of 

 Devil's Lake, and returned from their expedition in the 

 middle of November. 



The hardships and privations inseparable from prairie 

 adventure at this late season of the year, with the ther- 

 mometer sometimes as low as zero, were not sufficient to 

 deter Lord Grosvenor from undertaking a much longer 

 expedition to the west, after his return from hunting 

 buffalo. He started on the 22nd November in company 

 with James Mackay, one of the most distinguished and 

 enterprising natives of Selkirk Settlement, for Fort Ellice, 

 proposing subsequently to visit the Plain Crees on the 

 Qu'appelle. 



This adventurous journey on horseback at so late a 

 period of the year, considering the slender outfit of clothing 

 and provisions which Lord Grosvenor took with him, 

 showed no ordinary courage and confidence in the pos- 

 session of great physical endurance. A journey in dog 

 carioles over the snow is comfort itself compared with 

 riding in the face of a cutting wind when the thermometer 

 is not far removed from zero. 



Lord Cavendish, Mr. Seymour, and Mr. Ashley engaged 

 John Monkman of Oak Point, Lake Manitobah, to or- 

 ganize their dog trains and make arrangements for their 

 journey to Crow Wing on the Mississippi, proposing to 

 return to civilized life as soon as sufficient snow fell to 

 make the country passable for dog trains. John Monk- 

 man is the most noted runner in Selkirk Settlement ; 

 with his magnificent train of dogs, possibly the best in 



