und. Pemican. Indian Hunter sends his son to be
educated. Mosquitoes. Locusts 28

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 64

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 Harvest at the Settlement,
and arrival of Cattle from United States. Massacre of Hunters. Produce
of Grain at Colony 94

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
Riviere. 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 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 Factory. Bears. Indian Hieroglyphics. Arrival at Churchill.
Interview with Esquimaux. Return to York Factory. Embark for England.
Moravian Missionaries. Greenland. Arrival in the Thames 150

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.