Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . our horses; and Michelle far ahead onfoot with his rifle, keeping to his direction ofsouth 60° east around and over hills, downvalleys and through marshes, as steadily as ifelectric currents had polarized him into perpetualfealty to that point of the compass, we began todiscern from the high points of land high ridgesat the east which seemed gradually rising higherand higher in a line about parallel with ourcourse. These grew to mountains (or what arecalled such, in the absence of larger specimens)the next day. Joe, who had sworn
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . our horses; and Michelle far ahead onfoot with his rifle, keeping to his direction ofsouth 60° east around and over hills, downvalleys and through marshes, as steadily as ifelectric currents had polarized him into perpetualfealty to that point of the compass, we began todiscern from the high points of land high ridgesat the east which seemed gradually rising higherand higher in a line about parallel with ourcourse. These grew to mountains (or what arecalled such, in the absence of larger specimens)the next day. Joe, who had sworn to us thathe had wintered at Turtle Mountain, thought itwas that veritable peak which we now saw, al-though so much farther to the east than we hadexpected. Michelle preserved a discreet non-commitalism, asserting that from one point ofview it did look like Turtle Mountain, and thenagain it didnt. His defense of his own remem-brances had succeeded so poorly against primi-tive instincts in another case that he was notdisposed to say too much. The Colonel con-. SOPTn UEMD OF MOUSE RIVEE, TO RED RIVER eluded that it was Turtle Mountain, and thathe had all along been in the right in urgingMichelle to keep a course further to the the train was turned to the north of east, andwe pushed straight for the highest peak. Bythe middle of the afternoon we were near enoughto see that a river and wide bottom lands inter-vened, and a half hours steady canter broughtus to the great South Bend of Mouse River. We camped at the summit of one of theblulfs overlooking the bend, protected on thesouth also by a steep ravine, down which a littlestream, that was almost a torrent, tore its way tothe more secret places in the valley, where wecould sit and watch the deer and antelopes asthey came to drink. On Sunday two or three of us crossed thegreatplateau, ascended Hare Mountain, and from itscold, windy top saw, away to the south, the longblue line of Turtle Mountain, made known tous, beyond a
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