For a third of a century they have been almost unknown, and the area of cultivated ground in the States of North and South Dakota, where they may supply their hunger renders it likely that Manitoba will know them no more.

It cannot be wondered at that such continuous disasters made the settler whether Scottish, De Meuron, or Swiss, extremely discontented.

During the period of the scourge, the only resource was to winter at Pembina in reasonable distance from the buffalo-herds.

In one of these years a number of the Selkirk Colonists did not return to their farms but emigrated to the United States.

As we shall see in a few years after the grasshopper scourge the flood of the Red River took place, when the De Meurons and Swiss, with one or two exceptions, disappeared from the Colony and became citizens of the United States..