North America

Indian Loyalty - A Nap on Falcon Lake - A False Alarm - The Power of Whisky - Magnificent Water Stretches - A Striking Contrast - Picnic Lake - How we crossed Hawk Lake - Long Pine Lake - Bachelors' Quarters at Ingolf - We dress for Dinner - Our Last Portage - A Rash Choice - Grasp your Nettle - Mr. F - - 's Gallantry - Cross Lake - Denmark's Ranche - A Tramp through the Mire.

Saulte Ste. Marie - Indian Embroidery - Lake Superior - Preaching, Singing, and Card-playing - Silver Islet - Thunder Bay - The Dog River - Flowers at Fort William - "Forty Miles of Ice" - Icebergs and Warm Breezes - Duluth - Hotel Belles - Bump of Destructiveness in Porters.

Tilford - Pedestrians under Difficulties - The Railway at last - Not exactly a First-class Carriage - The Jules Muskeg - Whitemouth and Broken-Head Rivers - Vagaries of the Engine-driver - The Hotel at St. Boniface - Red River Ferry - Winnipeg - "A Vagabond Heroine" - The Terrier at fault.

The Mississippi - The Rapids - Aerial Railway Bridges - Breakfast at Braynor - Lynch Law - Card-sharpers - Crowding in the Cars - Woman's Rights! - The Prairie - "A Sea of Fire" - Crookstown - Fisher's Landing - Strange Quarters - "The Express-man's Bed" - Herding like Sheep - On board the Minnesota.

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.

by Henry David Thoreau