Right on this highway to the junction with a graveled spur, =5 m.=; R. on this spur is BATHGATE, =8.5 m.= (828 alt., 292 pop.), pleasantly situated in a bend of the TONGUE RIVER. At the southern side of town on a 40-acre tract of meadow and hayland are the buildings of the STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, established in 1908. Thirty-five to forty children attend each year for a nine-month period. CAVALIER, =9 m.= (894 alt., 850 pop.), Pembina County seat, was named for Charles Cavileer, one of the first white men to make a home within the borders of the present State. Usage has changed the spelling of the name. The town was established in 1875 by settlers who came overland from Missouri in a train of 10 covered wagons. The members of the train intended settling in Manitoba, Canada; but, not liking the country there, they returned to the United States, two of the families founding the Tongue River Settlement, which later became Cavalier. They came from Canada by way of Pembina over the old Fort Totten Trail, which ran where Main St. now passes and was one of several trails used by trappers, hunters, and traders as they journeyed between the hunting grounds and the trading posts. Over these trails often moved long caravans of creaking, fur-laden Red River oxcarts, on their long trek to St. Paul. Some trains are said to have contained as many as 1,500 carts. The jog in Cavalier's Main St. results from the fact that the land for the street, contributed by two men who owned adjoining farms, did not meet exactly. This complication was not discovered until after some buildings had been erected, but by that time it would have been too costly to change the route. AKRA (Icelandic, _fields_), =14 m.= (980 alt., 30 pop.), is near the southern edge of the Pembina Mountains (_see Side Tour 5A_), whose wooded height ahead abruptly marks the western edge of the level Red River Valley and the eastern edge of the Drift Prairie. The town is one of a group of communities comprising what is believed to be the largest Icelandic settlement in the United States (_see below_). At =16 m.= is CAMP COMFORT, an acre of beautifully wooded grounds (_good camping and picnicking facilities_). Camp Comfort marks the point at which the old Hunters Trail of fur-trading days crossed the Tongue River. HALLSON, =18 m.= (1,020 alt., 10 pop.), founded in 1878 and named for Johan Hallson, the first settler, is the oldest of the Icelandic settlements (_see below_). At Hallson is the junction with ND 32, a graveled highway.