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THE
NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
BY LAND.
BEING THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION FROM THEATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC,
UNDERTAKEN WITH THE VIEW OF EXPLORING A ROUTE ACROSSTHE CONTINENT TO BRITISH COLUMBIA THROUGH BRITISHTERRITORY, BY ONE OF THE NORTHERN PASSESIN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
BY
VISCOUNT MILTON, F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &c.,
AND
W. B. CHEADLE, M.A., M.D. Cantab., F.R.G.S.
Ros. Well, this is the Forest of Arden.
Touch. Ay, now I am in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in abetter place: but travellers must be content.
As You Like It.
LONDON:
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN,
LUDGATE HILL, E.C.
[THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.]
TO
THE COUNTESS FITZWILLIAM
AND
MRS. CHEADLE,
WHO TOOK SO GREAT AN INTEREST IN THE SUCCESS OF THE TRAVELLERS, THISACCOUNT OF THEIR JOURNEY IS DEDICATED BY
THE AUTHORS.
4, Grosvenor Square,
1st June, 1865.
v
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| PAGE | |
| Sail for Quebec—A Rough Voyage—Our Fellow-Passengers—The Wreck—Off the Banks of Newfoundland—Quebec—Up the St. Lawrence—Niagara—The Captain and the Major—Westward Again—Sleeping Cars—The Red Indian—Steaming up the Mississippi—Lake Pippin—Indian Legend—St. Paul, Minnesota—The Great Pacific Railroad—Travelling by American Stage-Wagon—The Country—Our Dog Rover—The Massacre of the Settlers by the Sioux—Culpability of the United States Government—The Prairie—Shooting by the Way—Reach Georgetown | 1 |
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