Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . ithin the fortpalings; and there is an excellent garden adjoining thechief factors house; the soil appeared rich and fertile,bearing an exuberant growth of rhubarb, cabbage, peas,carrots, and other vegetables. Cumberland House being at the junction of two greatlines of water communication, one leading from the Pa-cific, and the other from the Arctic Seas to the Winnipegbasin, is a place of importance, and was formerly one ofthe Companys principal depots. Wi
Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . ithin the fortpalings; and there is an excellent garden adjoining thechief factors house; the soil appeared rich and fertile,bearing an exuberant growth of rhubarb, cabbage, peas,carrots, and other vegetables. Cumberland House being at the junction of two greatlines of water communication, one leading from the Pa-cific, and the other from the Arctic Seas to the Winnipegbasin, is a place of importance, and was formerly one ofthe Companys principal depots. Within the fort there CUMBERLAND HOUSE. 449 are a number of buildings, one of them (the store-house)is a very large edifice, containing extensive machineryand appliances for pressing and packing furs, and makingpemmican. Cumberland has been visited by several cele-brated Arctic explorers. In the garden there is a sun-dial which was brought from England, and erected bySir John Eichardson, and Sir John Franklin remained herea portion of the winter of 1819, while on his first over-land expedition to the Polar Seas via the McKenzie Cumberland House, Pine Island Lake. The weather was very fine during our short sojourn atCumberland, and although enjoying the hospitality of thegentleman in charge, I regretted the unavoidable delay asthe season was already far advanced. Mr. Anderson verykindly offered me a passage in his boat to Eed Eiver,which of course I could not accept as his route lay alongthe east side of the lake. The gentlemen at the fort appeared astonished that abark canoe had come such a distance down the south VOL. L Or Gr 450 ASSINNIBOINE AND SASKATCHEWAN EXPEDITION. Saskatchewan, and that it had been dragged thither overthe prairies from Eed Eiver; they looked upon it as anovelty in traveling in the north-west. Messrs. Stewart and Anderson went in search of SirJohn Franklin in 1855, under the auspices of the Bay Company. They descended Backs GreatFish Ei
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