Here you shall build your church, and that lot," he said, pointing to the lot across the little stream called Parsonage Creek, "is for a school." He was thus planning to carry out the devout imagination of the greatest religious leader of his nation, John Knox: "A church and a school for every parish." Perhaps the most interesting episode in Lord Selkirk's visit was his treaty-making with the Indians.

The plan of securing a strip of land on each side of the river was said to have been decided to be as much as could be seen by looking under the belly of a horse out upon the prairie.

This was about two miles.

Hence the river lots were generally about two miles long.
His meeting with the Indians was after the manner of a great "Pow-wow." The Indians are fluent and eloquent speakers, though they indulge in endless repetitions.
Peguis, the Saulteaux chief, befriended the white man from the beginning.

He denounced the Bois-brules.