CHAPTER V.
FIRST FOOT ON RED RIVER BANKS.
The weary winter passing at Nelson Encampment had its bright spots.
Miles Macdonell in the building erected for himself, on the south side of the Nelson River, kept up his mess, having with him Mr.Hillier, Priest Bourke, Doctor Edwards, and Messrs.

John McLeod, Whitford and Michael Macdonell, officers and clerks.

Those Immigrants who took no part in the rebellion fared well.

True, the scurvy seized several of them, but proved harmless to those who obeyed the orders and took plentiful potations of spruce beer.

With the opening year a fair supply of fresh and dried venison was supplied by the Indians.