Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. ON THE WAY TO OUR MISSION FIELD—FORT GARRY—LAKE WINNIPEG PRIMITIVE COOKING PEMMICAN THE TUMBLE IX THE LAKE CORDIAL AVELCOME NO LOCKS OR KEYS VISITORS AT ALL HOURS THE STARTLED BEDROOM CALLER TEACHING BY EXAMPLE AS AVELL AS PRECEPT LOVE OF THE INDIANS FOR OUR CHILDREN BEAUTIFUL INDIAN NAMES GIVEN THEM. IN the year 1868 a party of about fifteen, comprising several missionaries, teachers, and adventurers, started out from the city of Hamilton, Canada. Of this company some were going to seek their fortunes in the then almost unknown North-west. Others, at the call of their Church, were going out as missionaries and teachers among the Indian tribes of the wild north land. The destination of the writer and his young wife was to be among Crec Indians at Ross- A'ille Mission, near Norway House, far up in the yet unexplored regions north of Manitoba. With the primitive means of transportation of those days two months were consumed in the journey to the city of Winnipeg, then known only as Fort Garry. The days spent on the great lakes, rivers, and prairies were full of adventures and strange experiences. At Fort Garry the party that had so long traveled in company broke up, some to push on twelve or fifteen hundred miles westward, some to remain in the Red River Settlement, which has since developed into the Province of Manitoba. The writer and his wife were under the necessity of waiting for a few days for some mode of conveyance by which they could get northward. The longest delays end sometime, and the summons to get ready and start came abrupt and sudden. We hastily packed up our camp-bed and traveling outfit and hurrieddown to the bank of Red River, where we found waiting for us the boat in which our long, perilous journey was to be made. It was nothing...