Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . horses,seven in number, well supplied with hay in the yard. Beforestarting next morning an almost sumptuous breakfast wasgiven to us, and while the horses were being saddled, Ibegged permission to see the farmyard, &c. Under asmall, shed there was a neat, light, four-wheeled carriage,which as we passed Mr. Gladieux very politely and kindly MR. GLADIEUXS FARM. 165 placed at my disposal during the remaining period of mystay at Eed Eiver. He remarked that on t
Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 1857 : and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition of 1858 . horses,seven in number, well supplied with hay in the yard. Beforestarting next morning an almost sumptuous breakfast wasgiven to us, and while the horses were being saddled, Ibegged permission to see the farmyard, &c. Under asmall, shed there was a neat, light, four-wheeled carriage,which as we passed Mr. Gladieux very politely and kindly MR. GLADIEUXS FARM. 165 placed at my disposal during the remaining period of mystay at Eed Eiver. He remarked that on the morrow hewas going to the plains to hunt buffalo, and should notrequire the carriage for several weeks after my proposeddeparture. I requested the guide to ask what I had topay for the entertainment of the party. The politeanswer returned was as follows : Nothing; it is not thecustom of the people of this country to charge strangerswho may honour them with a visit. Mr. Gladieux is a French native, he resides on theright bank of the Eed Eiver, five miles south of Fort showed me his farmyard, barns, garden and The Red River at Pierre Grladieuxs. Four pea stacks, several wheat stacks, and five or six haystacks, all of fair dimensions, were neatly arranged in thestack yard, while the cattle yard was tenanted by a num-ber of cows, pigs, horses, and poultry. His peas weresown on the 7th May, and reaped on the 25th Mr. Gladieuxs house, the trunk of an immense hardlay ready for splitting into firewood ; the size appeared tobe so unusual that I measured it carefully, and found it to M 3 166 RED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION. be four feet ten inches in diameter six feet from the base,and four feet eight inches in diameter ten feet from thebase ; at the base it measured 16*5 feet in circumference,and showed 150 well denned rings. German Creek, or La Eiviere Seine, flows into Eed Eiverabout two miles below Fort Garry. In 1858 this riverwas explored by Mr.
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