ves to be.

My dogs and Indians were waiting for me, having come down from the north
to meet me, as arranged months before. We purchased our supplies,
loaded our sleds, and away we started by dog-train on the last part of
the long journey. We had left Toronto in a splendid railroad carriage;
we ended the trip of over twenty days' duration with dog sleds.

Very quickly did I come back to the wild life of the North after the six
months of incessant pleading the cause of the Indians before the large
and enthusiastic audiences in our towns and cities. The days of hard
and rapid travelling over the frozen surface of Lake Winnipeg,--the
bitter cold that often made us shiver in spite of the violent exercise
of running,--the intense and almost unbearable pain caused by the
reflection of the brilliant rays of the sun upon the snowy waste,--the
bed in the hole in the snow with no roof above us but the star-decked
vault of heaven,--were all cheerfully endured again and successfully
passed through.

Very cordial was my welcome by the Saulteaux at my new field. I was
very much gratified to find that they had had a successful winter, and
that those left in charge had worked faithfully and well. A little log
house, twelve by twenty-four feet, had been put up, and in one end of it
I was installed as my present home. My apartment was just twelve feet
square, but to me it was all-sufficient. It was kitchen, bedroom,
dining-room, study, reception-room, and everything else. Two of my
grandest dogs, Jack and Cuffy, shared it with me for months, and we had
a happy and busy time. With several hard-working Indians, two of them
being Big Tom and Martin Papanekis from Norway House, we toiled hard at
getting out the timber and logs for our new church, school-house, and
parsonage. We had to go a distance of twelve or fourteen miles over the
frozen lake ere we reached the large island on which we found timber
sufficiently large for our purpose. Here we worked as hard as possible.
Often we had to go in miles from the shore to find what we wanted. To
make our work more difficult, we found but few large trees growing close
together. So, for nearly every large stick of timber, we had to make a
new trail through the deep snow to the lake. The snow was from three to
four feet deep. The under-brush was thick, and the fallen trees were
numerous. Yet under these discouragements we worked. We cut down the
trees, measured them, squared them