The New Carriage Has Turned Out Quite A Success And Been Very
Useful, As It Has Carried All Our Clothes,
Buffalo robes, buckets
and oats for the horses, our provisions, etc., even to our tent,
the poles of which were
Slung along the carriage just above the
wheels, and the whole so light that A - - pushed it easily three or
four hundred yards when we were moving our camp at Fort Ellice.
* * * * *
QUEEN'S HOTEL, WINNIPEG.
July 25.
We cannot fancy ourselves in this elegant brick edifice; but it's
an ill wind that blows no one any good, and had we not been
nervous of driving sixteen miles in a raging thunderstorm last
night you would not have received a letter by this mail. The heat
is so great that I am afraid my ideas won't flow. It is a hot
thundery day, cloudy and close, the thermometer is at 109 degrees in
the shade, and everything one touches seems to be at melting point!
Unfortunately we have had all our cool things for our journey, and
they are too dirty to wear in a "live" town. These three last days
are the only days we have had to grumble at the heat; and, I
expect, if we bad been out at the farm, quietly doing our various
works, we should not have felt it so much; but a tent on a hot day
is like a stove-house, quite fearful.
We have had a very successful tour of seven days, sleeping five
nights on Mother Earth, which was mercilessly hard.
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