Transcriber’s Note: Italics are indicated with _underscores_. [Illustration: OUR PARTY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. (_From a Photograph._)] THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY LAND. BEING THE NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION FROM THE ATLANTIC TO THE PACIFIC, UNDERTAKEN WITH THE VIEW OF EXPLORING A ROUTE ACROSS THE CONTINENT TO BRITISH COLUMBIA THROUGH BRITISH TERRITORY, BY ONE OF THE NORTHERN PASSES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. BY VISCOUNT MILTON, F.R.G.S., F.G.S., &c., AND W. B. CHEADLE, M.A., M.D. CANTAB., F.R.G.S. _Ros._ Well, this is the Forest of Arden. _Touch._ Ay, now I am in Arden; the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travellers must be content. AS YOU LIKE IT. LONDON: CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN, LUDGATE HILL, E.C. [THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IS RESERVED.] TO THE COUNTESS FITZWILLIAM AND MRS. CHEADLE, WHO TOOK SO GREAT AN INTEREST IN THE SUCCESS OF THE TRAVELLERS, THIS ACCOUNT OF THEIR JOURNEY IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHORS. 4, GROSVENOR SQUARE, _1st June, 1865_. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Sail for Quebec--A Rough Voyage--Our Fellow-Passengers-- The Wreck--Off the Banks of Newfoundland--Quebec--Up the St. Lawrence--Niagara--The Captain and the Major-- Westward Again--Sleeping Cars--The Red Indian--Steaming up the Mississippi--Lake Pippin--Indian Legend--St. Paul, Minnesota--The Great Pacific Railroad--Travelling by American Stage-Wagon--The Country--Our Dog Rover--The Massacre of the Settlers by the Sioux--Culpability of the United States Government--The Prairie--Shooting by the Way--Reach Georgetown 1 CHAPTER II.