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preacher. Hymns sung were "All Rail The Power Of Jesus Name" and      
"Shall We Gather At The River." The lesson was 11th chapter of John's   
Gospel,-the text being 25th and 26th verses. The theme was the possibil- 
ity of a new life where only death seemed to reign and incidentally the    
possibility of a glorious resurrection from this country, especiaily if our   
faith and hope were in God.  

   The following day, Blake and Grant left for 10th base in order to locate 
Clark's Crossing exactly. Mr. Hill and I went to Moosewoods and on our  
way back camped on the hill over the River, thinking that it was a fine  
spot for a town. The mosquitos drove us out of our tent at 4 a.m. and we    
built a fire, got our breakfast, and reached the Crossing at 10 a.m., August  
2nd.    
            
   Blake and Grant had located the Crossing at almost the extreme nor-
thern boundary of the Colony. So on August 3rd 1 started up the River  
again with a Mr. Sayer who was on his way West and could talk Sioux.  
Camped on the reserve and I found that Whitecap said there was no point 
on the river between Moosewoods and the Crossing where both banks of the   
river were as low as in this region, so we came hack and examined the lo
cality and went to the Crossing and discussed the matter with Grant, Hill
and Blake, and we decided to recommend this locality if we did not see a 
reason to change before we left.

  Aug. 6th.~Sunday. preached again. Acts 3-19. Congregation 10 per-   
  sons (1).

   Monday.-Grant and I started for Prince Albert, looking for timber on
   the way and Blake, Hill, Tait, Goodwin, Latham, and the Hamiltons went
south and east to survey and explore still further. We all met again on
the 17th., Mr. Hill was very sick and on the 19th we sent him to Prince
Albert on his way home by boat to Winnipeg.

  Aug. l8th.-All camped at or near Mr. Kusch's lot and examined the 
  shore west of that and further south. Then we decided on section 27, and
further south, and fixed our boundaries-we thought of "Minnetonka" for a  
name at first, but we found some "Saskatoon" berries and that settled the 
name.  

   The following Sunday I preached the first sermon in this locality to  
   10 persons, four of whom came 3 miles on foot. Text: Hebrews 11th chap~  
ter, 12 and 13 verse.  
   
     After spending some days about here we all went back to the Crossing, 
  settled up our matters. Grant and Tait came home by Moose Jaw, and 
four of us started across country, struck the Humboldt trail and Touch-  
wood Hills to Qu'Appelle in 7 days, resting on Sunday. We would start
at 4.30 drive till 6.30, breakfast, and off again at 8. travel till 12, dine till 
2, start again, supper at 4.30, off again at 6, camp at 7.30. Horses we 
slow and trail not very good,-a tiresome journey and we were all pretty  
well used  
                             
   When I got to the station at Qu'Appelle and saw the track and a freight  
   car you cannot tell how glad and thankful I was that the worst of the 
journey was over. I saw an Indian under the car examining the axles and 
wheels and after a while he came out and went all around the car and felt     
of it and then he looked up and down the track, and he could see it for    
miles, and got down and felt of the rails, and then turned to me as I came  
up to him and said "How! how!  White-man, make big trail and big fire 
cart and go like the wind."

   The following year I left Toronto May 1st, 1883, reached Winnipeg on  
   the evening of the 4th, arranged for scows, cables, lumber, shingles, doors, 
sash, tin, nails, etc., to be sent to Medicine Hat, and floated down the Sas-
katchewan to Saskatoon, Mr. S. R. Kerr to boss the job, hut he was to get
ready as soon as possible, so I came on to Moose Jaw, took the trail and
reached the Colony on 29th May.  I found the Government surveyors were  
surveying our lands along the river and further North of the Crossing, in
long narrow strips, like Half-breed lands at the Red River, and as nothing   

1)  Mr. Lake is here, and from time to time subsequently, making a
selection from his diary.
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