Sufi'erings — The N orth-westers — The Grasshoppers — The Blackbirds The Flood — The Colony in 1862 — King Company — Farming at Red River — Fertility of the Soil — Isolated Position of the Colony — Obstrue tive Policy of the Company — Their Just Dealing and Kindness to the Indians — Necessity for a Proper Colonial Government — Value of the Country — French Canadians and Half-breeds — Their Idleness and Frivolity — Hunters and Voyageurs — Extraordinary Endurance — The English and Scotch Settlers — The Spring and Fall Hunt — Our Life at Fort Garry — Too Late to cross the Mountains before Winter — Our Plans — Men — Horses — Bucephalus — Our Equipment — Leave Fort Garry — The N oce — La Ronde's Last Carouse — Delightful Travelling — A Night Alarm — vitaldeserts — Fort Ellice — Delays — Making Pemmican Its Value to the Traveller — Swarms of wild-fowl — Good Shooting The Indian Summer — A Salt Lake Country — Search for Water — A Horse's Instinct — South Saskatchewan — Arrive at Carlton 36.