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f|t '??attjjmait at? Soutjjnm. WEDNESDAY, DEG. IL 18G6. On Snow-Shoes to the Barren Ground. Far to the northwest, beginning ten day'a journey beyond Great Slave Lake and running down to the Arctic ocean, with Hudson Hay aa its eastern and Great Bear Lake and the Coppermine River aa ita western boundaries, lies the most complete and extended desolation on earth. That ia the Barren Grounds, the laud whose approximate 200,000 square miles (for its exact area is unknown) is the dwelling place ot no man, and its storms and sterility in its moat northerly part aie withstood the year round by no living creature save the i?u?k ox. There is the timberlesa waste where ieeladened blasts blow with hurricane and ceaseless fury that bid your blood stand atilt and your breath come and go in painful stinging gaaps ; where rock and lichen and moas replace aoil und trees and herbage ; and where death by starvation or freezing dogs the foot? steps of the explorer. There are two seasons and only two methods of penetrating this great lone land of the North-by canoe, when the watercourses are free of ice, and on snow-shoes dur? ing the frozen period, which occu pies nearly nine of the year's twelve months The deadly cold o? winter, and greater risk of starvation, make the canoe trip the more usual one with the few Indians than hunt the musk-ox But, because of the many portages, you cannot travel ao rapidly by canoe as on snow-shoes, nor go so far north for the best of the musk-ox hunting, nor seo the Barren Grounds at their best, or worst, aa you care to consider it That is why I chose to make the attempt on snow-shoes Arthur Heming, the artiat, and 1 found ourselves, December 27, 1894, at Edmondton, the end of the rail? road. We had traveled on the Cana dian Pacific via Winnipeg and Cal? gary, and through the land of the Crees, Blackfeet and Sarcee Indians, without seeing anything so pic? turesque in the way of costuming as the Winnepeg dragoon and a Sarcee young woman resplendent in beada and glittering tinsel. I really ought to include the mounted policeman,for he too has a uniform which, with scarlet jacket and yellow-stripped breeches, is deserving of greater attention. But the mounted policeman has that which ?9 far worthier of comment than uni form ile ha? the reputation of be? ing the most effective arm of the Canadian Interior Department And he lives up to it. These "Riders of the Plainp," as they are called, patrol A country so large that the entire force may lose itself within its do mains and still be miles upon miles apart. Yet this comparative handful maintains order among the lawless white men and stays discontentment among the restless rrd men in a man? ner so satisfactorily and so unosten? tatiously as to make some of our ; United States experiences read like those of a tyro The success ot the Northwest Mounted Police may be accredited to ita system of distribution through? out the guarded territory. Unlike our army, it does not mass its force is? forts adjacent to Indian reserva? tions Posts it has, where recruiting and drilling are constantly going foi ward. but the main body of men is scattered in twos and threes over the country riding hither and tither-a watch that goes on relief after relief. | Thia is the secret of their success, i?nd a system it would well repay our | own government to adopt The | poiiee are ever on the spot to advise or to arrest. They do not wait for action until an outbreak has occur? red ; they ave always in action They constitute a most valuable peace assuring corps, and I wish we had one like it. A SEW YEARNS DANCE IK TUS XOETtt WEST. Halt-breeds-French and Cree constitute the larger share of popu? lation at La Biche, if 1 may class as its population those scattered over the immediately surrounding country, and where the settlement coasts cf ju3t three cabius besides the Hudson Bay Company's. But, after allene French blood reveals itself chit / iu a few Christian names ami the more fanciful coloring and se of some articles of wear, for ?ere is little French sooken. the eb dren of mixed parentage almost ^variably adopt!ng the mother tongue, Cree There are not more tha?? one hundred Crees who come iuto i^aBiche, which is tbe most northerly post where treaty money is given, and they aie not thriving to any great extent, cor increasing The annuity cf ??bout ave dollars a head is not sufficient to support and just enough tc interrupt keen hunting; they plant a few pota toes, which grow here fairly well bat aie making no progress towards self-support, as are those ot' the same nation more to the South. Alter what i had see o the night be? fore of the preliminaries to the an? nual feast day. I did uoi expect on New Year's to be able to make any preparation f**r our further progress. Long before we had lurnea cut of our ci*nleets the house w*s iitej ?' \ packed with Indians, and by noon time the fiddle was going and the deicers had entire possession of the floor 1 doubt if I ever saw outside of some of the Chinese dens in San Francis?e, so many crowded into the same space. 1 lacked the heart to talk business with Gairdner, who, I j divined from some of his remarkH, had not accomplished, in the way ol making ready ol our dog brigade, all I had expected of him. I simply pitied him for the unpleasant atid malodo? rous fullness of his home, and I pitied his half breed wife and her daughters, who were kept cooking for anti feed ?Hg half starved Indians from early morn mail late into the night. Hem? ing took his pencil and scratch pad and I my camera, and we went out to see the New Year's day arrivals and (he dogs and the Indians lu front of the fort's stockade were gossiping groups that grew willi each fresh arrival, while scattered all about the enclosure, just where their drivera had left them, were tho dog trains of the Indians who had come to lill Gairdner^ house and eat the Hudson Hay Company's meat. There was no stabling nor feasting for these dogs; in a 2-1 below zero atmosphere they stretched out in the snow and waited, without covering, and many cases without food. The Indians willi their blankets, coats or capotes, and the dogs and sledges and "jump? ers." made a picturesque whole against the unbroken background of snow, but. like all Indian pictures, its attractiveness fud ed away on the close inspection that discovered the dirt of the man, and the scraggy, half-starved condition of the beast. These people had never before seen a camera, and many ol my plates show them scurrying away or turning their backs, lt was only aller the mosl elaborate descriptions to Gairdner, who instructed the interpreter, who explained to the Indians, that we in? duced one or two "types" io sit in our presence while Heming sketched them. Tliey thought we were mak? ing "medicine" against them, but were won over by Heming drawing the moose and caribou, while they watced the animals they knew so well develop under his pencil. When we returned to the house the dance was still on ; it was always "on" during the first thirty six hours of our stay at LaBiehe. Formet ly the Hudson Bay Company officers merely "received'* on New Year's day ; but as the Indians have a cus tom between sexes of kissing on meeting, and aa it did not become au impaitial officer to distinguish in this respect between old women and young, unattractive and attractive, th4* feast was substituted : so now the women are fed and danced iustead of being kissed. 1 hope that New-Years' night will not be lecorded against me Those Indians danced until four o'clock in the morning, and they danced to my utter demoralization We sat around and watched the "gymnastics" and pretended we en j*?yed them until about one o'clock , then we retired We al) three s!^,i in Gairdners office, a tiny apartment cut from the main room by a thin board partition, of which a good quartet section in the centre was removed to admit of the two rooms sharing a single stove T?tere was a piece of loosened sheet-iron tacked to the partition to protect it from the heat, and my head was agsins: thai parti? tion, and our blankets on the same floor upon which those Indians sprinted and jumped and shuffled ! by Casper W. 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