There was only one obstruction on their way up the river.

This was the "Deer," now St.
Andrew's Rapids, but after their experiences this was nothing, for these rapids were easily overcome by tracking, that is, by dragging the boats by a line up the bank.
Up the river they came and rounded what we now call Point Douglas, in the City of Winnipeg, a name afterwards given to mark Lord Selkirk's family name.

They had completed a journey of seven hundred and twenty-eight miles, from York Factory to the site of Winnipeg--and they had done this in fifty-five days.

Now they landed.
THE RED LETTER DAY OF THEIR LANDING WAS AUGUST 30TH, 1812.
At York Factory the Colonists had met a Hudson's Bay Company officer--Peter Fidler--on his way to England.

He was the surveyor of the Company and a map of the Colony of which a copy is given by us marks the Colony Gardens, where Governor Miles Macdonell lived.