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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m*thode. rata D lelure, J 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 ca. -J^ A CHAPTER FROM THE NORTH-WFoST REBRhLION. ItY CKO. It. lUtOOKS. Fai{ beyond the lines of travel, in a portion of the j^reat Dominion where tlij white residents are few and far apart, and are either missionaries of the Roman Catholic Church or factors of Hudson Hay Company's trading l)osts, is a district of surpassing lone- liness. Lacking the grandeur of the Rockies and Selkirks, or the weird sublimity of the Haguenay Valley, it possesses a beaut}' of scenery — hill and dale, lake and stream, copse and for- est — wliich, when it becomes better known, will doubtless attract tourists fiom all parts of Canada. At present, despite the fart that the region teems with game great and small, its inhabi- tants, few in number, arc pure Indians, belonging to the most peaceful tribe among them, the Chippewayans. < 'omparatively little is known about these lar-northern red men. Less warlike tlian their southern neigh- bors, the Crees ; less civilized than the Blackfeet ; seldom coming in contact with white men, and consequently purer in their morals than most North- Western aborigines, the}- are indus- trious, tractable, grateful to those who befriend them, and skilled as fisher- men and hunters. Their chief settle- ment, extending from Beaver River to Cold Lake, contains a few well-Suilt, substantial log-cabins, a small Roman Catholic Chinch, some cleared and j)liiughed laml and, here and there, some rude attempts at fencing. They farm in very primitive fashion, but own a few head of cattle, a few lough, shaggy ponies, and the usual number of gaunt, ill-looking dogs, — not tho least important or useful of their be- longings. As a lace, or rather as a tribe, the ( hippewayans have much in conuuon with other Indians of the North-West, yet they difi'er from them in many ways. What one notices in tlicm first of all, just as it is noticeable in all Indians, is the prevalence of liars - features, a swarthy, if not a dirty complexion, and sparkling eyes. But a ditlerent and better typo is to be met — tall men, with noble-looking heads and delicate features. They are the exception among them, it is true ; but they can be seen, and are a proof that the tribe is not utte'ly degraded. They are an interesting people, and just as long a-s they are not contami- nated by white people, will, doubt- less, ^retain their simplicity and the other good traits of character which they ])Ossess. Nominall}', at least, these people are Christians, and members of the Roman (Jatholic Church. Their re- ligious instructor is Father LegoH', who has lived and labored among them for the last thirty years. Rev. Father Lego ti' deserves something more than a passing notice. A tall, thin, spare man, I mistook him for an In- dian when I first saw liim. His face was tanned the color of leather, his clerical garb was frayed and worn, his shoes would have puzzled a cobbler to mend, and altogether lie looked more like one of his flock than their shep- herd. It is true that my introduction to him was just after he had spent many weary weeks a prisoner in Big Bear's cam|), wandering over the country, ill fed and ill protected against the weather. Father LegoH' was born in <^>uebec and is of good birth, being descende 1 from a long hno of aristocratic nol)les of Old France. Nearly forty years ago, when a young man, he volunteered for mis- sionary work in the North-West, and, as I have already stated, has been PROVINCIAL ARC!I!V:3 OF B. C. 472 Till'. CASADl N MACA/.INH. amon^' Uio ('lii|»|tewuyan.s for the Inst tliirty veins. lii'siding hnii^ iiiiionj^st tlie dusky cliiltlren of tlie wildciness, following nomads, and sliaring tlie liabits and exposures of the tribe, in time lie liecanie subject to all the vieissitudes of the situation, and par- took largely of the vl of the humble missionary, there must be a prompting which carries theiii beyond earthly consideration.^. It was such a (aith that sustained the holy army of n.artyrs in the last agonies of their cruel torture, and the same faith reconciles to a life-long e.\- ile in arctic or semi-arctic latitudes the noble men who, for conscience sake, labor among the far N(uth-West In- tlians iMid the Ks<|uimau.\. The t 'hijipewayans took ])a t in tlio North-West rebellion, but relurising, with all its accom- panying horrors \'ei y shortly alter the Frog Lake massacre, a baml ot ( 'ree Indians visited the lieaver River settlement, and urget'0 in which factor McLeod, his wife and daughters were eontined, tlireiitening to shoot at sight the first man wlio should tr}' to invade tin ir privacy. For thiee months, Big Bear dragged his captives about thr country hetween Ivlmonton and Battleford, anil during the whole of *hat time i\\v ('Idppewayans lendered them many a set vice ami diil them many a kindness, often sharing with them their food. Wli) knows what additional horrors there might have been to relate had not those few Indians lioen in the rebel eam|> ? hinuediatelv after the light at Krenchman's Butte, ( leneial Strange camped for a cou])le of days on the banks of a small creek close to the scene of the fight, awaiting the arrival ot < ieneral Sii- Fred. Middleti)n from Battleford. While so waiting, a num- ber of Big Bear's prisoners came into the camp and were well cared for They had doleful tales to tell of hard treatment, painful marches and scant provisions, during the time they bad been captives ; and tlieir appearance b)re them out in all they .said. A sec- ond-hand clothes dealer would not have given a dollar for all their appar- el. From them it was ascertained that after the tight at the Butte the rebels had become disorganized and had broken up into different bands, Big Bear having gone in the direction of Battleford. and another band hav- ing gone north, taking with it Mr. McLean, the Hudsjn Bay factor at Fort Pitt, and his family. When < ieneral Middlet(m arrived, (Ieneral Strange with a see the olhcer in cjmmand of the troops and to intercede for the Indian.s. Wliat j)as.sed between General Strange and Father L'gofi is known only to tho,so (wo gentleman, but that same evening Father Logoff, accompanied i)y the chaplain of the Mount Royal Rifles, left the camp an