North America

The Minnesota again - Souvenirs of Lord and Lady Dufferin - From Winnipeg by Red River - Compagnons du Voyage - A Model Farm - "Bees" - Manitoba a good Field for Emigrants - Changes at Fisher's Landing - A Mild Excitement for Sundays - Racing with Prairie Fires - Glyndon - Humours of a Pullman Sleeping Car - Lichfield.

Red Lake River - Grand Forks - The Ferry - Custom-house Officers at Pembina - Mud and Misery - Winnipeg at last - A Walk through the Town - A Hospitable Welcome - Macadam wanted - Holy Trinity Church - A Picturesque Population - Indians shopping - An "All-sorts" Store - St. Boniface and its Bells - An Evening Scene.

Lakes Smith and Howard - Lovely Lake Scenery - Long Lake - The Little American - "Wait till you see our Minnetaunka!" - Minneanopolis - Villa Hotels - A Holiday Town - The Great Flour-mills - St. Paul's - Our American Cousins - The French Canadian's Story - Kind-hearted Fellow-passengers - A New Way of Travelling together - The Mississippi - Milwaukee, the Prettiest Town in Michigan - School-houses - A Peep at Chicago - Market Prices - Pigs! - The Fairy Tales of Progress - Scotch Incredulity - Detroit Ferry - Hamilton - Good-bye to my Readers.

Summer Days - The English Cathedral - Icelandic Emigrants - Tableaux - In chase of our Dinner - The Indian Summer - Blocked up - Gigantic Vegetables - Fruitfulness of the Country - Iceland Maidens - Rates of Wages - Society at Winnipeg - Half-castes - Magic of the Red River Water - A Happy Hunting-ground - Where is Manitoba?

Winter Amusements - A Winnipeg Ball - Forty Degrees below Zero - New Year's Day - Saskatchewan Taylor - Indian Compliments - A Dog train - Lost in the Snow - Amateur Theatricals - Sir Walter Raleigh's Hat - A Race with the Freshets - The Ice moves - The First Steamer of the Season - Good-bye to Winnipeg.

A Manitoban Travelling-carriage - The Perils of Short Cuts - The Slough of Despond - Paddy to the Rescue! - "Stick-in-the-Mud" and his Troubles - McQuade's - An Irish Welcome - Wretched Wanderers.

Faithless Jehu - The "Blarney Stone" - Mennonites in search of News - "Water, Water everywhere" - A Herd of Buffaloes - A Mud Village - Pointe du Chene and Old Nile - At Dawson Route - A Cheerful Party - Toujours perdrix - The "Best Room" - A Government Shanty - Cats and Dogs - Birch River - Mushroom-picking - The Mosquito Plague - A Corduroy Road - The Cariboo Muskeg.

The "Nor'-west Angle" - The Company's House - Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud" - On the Lake of the Woods - A Gallant Cook - Buns a l'imprevu - A Man overboard! - Camping out - Clear Water Bay - Our First Portage - A Noble Savage - How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names - At our Journey's End.

Making a New Home - Carriere's Kitchen - The Navvies' Salle-a-Manger - A Curious Milking Custom - Insect Plagues - Peterboro' Canoes - Fishing Trips - Mail-day - Indian dread of drowning - The Indian Mail-carrier and his Partner - Talking by Telegraph - Prairie Fires.

About six oeclock we started for Quebec, one hundred and eighty miles distant by the river; gliding past Longueil and Boucherville on the right, and Pointe aux Trembles, "so called from having been originally covered with aspens," and Bout de leIsle, or the End of the Island, on the left. I repeat these names not merely for want of more substantial facts to record, but because they sounded singularly poetic to my ears. There certainly was no lie in them. They suggested that some simple and perchance heroic human life might have transpired there.