The Barren Ground of Northern Canada

The Barren Ground of Northern Canada is by Warburton Pike. The author's preface says that in many of the outlying districts of Canada an idea is prevalent, fostered by former travellers, that somewhere in London there exists a benevolent society whose object is to send men incapable of making any useful scientific observations to the uttermost parts of the earth, in order to indulge their taste for sport or travel.

The writer says he had the post of honour in the leading boat steered by the guide of the brigade, a Swampy Indian from the Red-River country who had spent many years in voyaging for the Hudson's Bay Company. The text says that late in the night the men who had gone to fetch the meat came back, hauling on the sleigh Marlo's brother-in-law José, whom they had found lying in the snow, without fire. A list of entries includes, among others, Capot Blanc, an Indian, the carcajou, which is a cunning beast, and the caribou, which is sometimes found near the Fond du Lac.