Many on the present occasion were supplied, many were not; they got and grumbled, and grumbled and got, till they could get no more; and at last went off, still grumbling and discontented.
From Fort Garry the cavalcade and camp-followers were crowding on the public road, and thence, stretching from point to point, till the third day in the evening, when they reached Pembina, the great rendezvous of such occasions.

When the hunters leave the Settlement it enjoys that relief which a person feels on recovering from a long and painful sickness.

Here, on a level plain, the whole patriarchal camp squatted down like pilgrims on a journey to the Holy Land, in ancient days: only not so devout, for neither scrip nor staff were consecrated for the occasion.

Here the roll was called, and general muster taken, when they numbered on the occasion 1,630 souls: and here the rules and regulations for the journey were finally settled.

The officials for the trip were named and installed into their office, and all without the aid of writing materials.
The camp occupied as much ground as a modern city, and was formed in a circle: all the carts were placed side by side, the trams outward.
Within this line, the tents were placed in double, treble rows, at one end; the animals at the other in front of the tents.