CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.-Departure from England.—Arrival at the

Orkney Isles. Enter Hudson's Straits.-Icebergs.—

Esquimaux.-Killing a Polar Bear.-York Factory.

-Embarked for the Red River Colony.-Difficulties

of the Navigation.-Lake Winipeg.-Muskeggowuck,

or Swamp Indians.-Pigewis, a chief of the Chipe-

ways, or Saulteaux Tribe.-Arrival at the Red River.

-Colonists. School established. Wolf dogs.-

Indians visit Fort Douglas.-Design of a Building

for Divine Worship

CHAPTER II.-Visit the School.-Leave the Forks for

Qu'appelle.-Arrival at Brandon House-Indian

Corpse staged.-Marriages at Company's Posts.--

Distribution of the Scriptures.-Departure from

Brandon House.-Encampment.-Arrival at Qu'ap-

pelle.-Character and Customs of Stone Indians.-

Stop at some Hunter's Tents on return to the Colony.

-Visit Pembina.—Hunting Buffaloes.-Indian ad-

dress.-Canadian Voyageurs.-Indian Marriages.-

Burial Ground.-Pemican.-Indian Hunter sends his

son to be educated.--Mosquitoes.—Locusts.

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CHAPTER III.-Norway House.--Baptisms.--Arrival

at York Factory.-Swiss Emigrants.-Auxiliary Bible

Society formed.-Boat wrecked.-Catholic Priests.-

Sioux Indians killed at the Colony.-Circulation of

the Scriptures among the Colonists.-Scarcity of

Provisions.-Fishing under the Ice.-Wild Fowl.-

Meet the Sioux Indians at Pembina.-They scalp an

Assiniboine.-War dance. --Cruelly put to death a

Captive Boy. Indian expression of gratitude for the

Education of his Child.-Sturgeon....

CHAPTER IV.-Arrival of Canoe from Montreal.-

Liberal Provision for Missionary Establishment.-

Manitobah Lake.-Indian Gardens.-Meet Captain

Franklin and Officers of the Arctic Expedition at

York Factory.-First Anniversary of the Auxiliary

Bible Society.- -Half-Caste Children.- -Aurora

Borealis.-Conversation with Pigewis.-Good Har-

vest at the Settlement, and arrival of Cattle from

United States.-Massacre of Hunters.-Produce of

Grain at Colony.....

CHAPTER V.-Climate of Red River.-Thermometer.

-Pigewis's Nephew.-Wolves.-Remarks of General

Washington.-Indian Woman shot by her son.-

Sufferings of Indians.-Their notions of the Deluge.

-No visible object of adoration.-Acknowledge a

Future Life. Left the Colony for Bas la Rivière.—

Lost on Winipeg Lake.-Recover the Track, and

meet an intoxicated Indian.-Apparent facilities for

establishing Schools West of Rocky Mountains.-

Russians affording Religious instruction on the North

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West Coast of North America.-Rumours of War

among the surrounding Tribes with the Sioux Indians. 110

CHAPTER VI.-Progress of Indian Children in reading.

-Building for Divine Worship.-Left the Colony.-

Arrival at York Fort.-Departure for Churchill Fac-

tory.-Bears.-Indian Hieroglyphics.-Arrival at

Churchill.-Interview with Esquimaux.-Return to

York Factory.-Embark for England.-Moravian

Missionaries.-Greenland.—Arrival in the Thames... 150

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DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.

1. THE ENGRAVING OF MEETING THE INDIANS, TO FACE

THE TITLE PAGE.

2. SCALPING THE INDIANS TO FACE PAGE 85.

3. THE PROTESTANT CHURCH, TO FACE PAGE 155.

THE RED RIVER COLONY;

AND THE

NORTH-WEST-AMERICAN INDIANS.

CHAPTER I.

DEPARTURE FROM ENGLAND.-ARRIVAL AT THE ORKNEY ISLES. ENTER HUDSON'S STRAITS.-ICEBERGS.-ESQUIMAUX.-KILLING A POLAR BEAR.YORK FACTORY.-EMBARKED FOR THE RED RIVER COLONY.DIFFICULTIES OF THE NAVIGATION.-LAKE WINIPEG. -MUSKEGGOWUCK, OR SWAMP INDIANS.-PIGEWIS, A CHIEF OF THE CHIPPEWAYS OR SALTEAUX TRIBE.ARRIVAL AT THE RED RIVER.-COLONISTS.-SCHOOL

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