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concealment afforded by the snow, and, quite neglectful 

 of the whistles and shouts of their masters, "lie close." 

 We were detained for more than three hours on one 

 occasion after a heavy snow storm, by some of the dogs 

 preserving perfect silence and a motionless position under 

 their covering of snow, within thirty yards of our camp 

 fire. They were found by dint of walking systematically 

 round the camp fire in a continually enlarging circle, the 

 half-breeds being quite aware of the advantage which these 

 cunning animals would take of their accidental conceal- 

 ment. A loud shout every now and then announced that a 

 searcher had stumbled over a truant, whose depressed 

 mien and conscious look showed how well he knew that 

 he had been the cause of anxiety and trouble. 



On the 8th of December we arrived at Eed Lake, and 

 had a splendid gallop of twelve miles across the ice from 

 the mouth of Eed Lake Eiver to the 0 jib way village and 

 Missionary station. An Indian from Pembina caught us 

 just as we were about to commence the traverse, and 

 brought the information that Monkman's party had left 

 Fort Garry on the day following our departure, and were 

 steadily pursuing the road we had made. The Indian 

 thought they would catch us in a day or two. Soon 

 after our arrival at the Eed Lake Mission we learned 

 that the Eoman Catholic Missionary had been frozen to 

 death two days previously, in an attempt to cross the ice 

 during a snow storm, from a promontory about two miles 

 away from the Mission. He had been visiting a camp of 

 Ojibways, who warned him of the perils of a return across 

 the ice during the storm, and invited him to pass the 

 night in their wigwams ; but the missionary thought that 

 he would not incur any danger of freezing during so 

 short a traverse, although the thermometer indicated a 

 temperature of 25° below zero, at the opposite station. 



