AT THE RED RIVER. 25

housed by us for the night. The party from Port—
agewla-Prairie, who had come in for seed, left, as
they could not he sure of crossing with their laden
carts in the morning. It was thus a. day of much
secularity, but I hope not unnecessarily so. In
rescuing the cattle one felt the luxury of doing
good, for which alone life is worth living. Another
day, and our dwelling will he touched with the
waters. We had perhaps shared in the feeling,
which all seemed in turn to experience, that it might
yet stop ere it reached ourselves; but all around
were sufiéring, and Why should we expect to
escape? We had, directly after service, removed
the hangings, cushions, 8m, from the church,
which it now seemed likely the water would
enter.

There had been to-day a peculiar noise, like the
sound of many waters, such as one may imagine
the first distant sound of Niagara: it was the pour—
ing of the water over the plains. One told me he
heard it commence in the morning: it was not the
usual rush of the river, but the sound as of a. water-
fall; and we often heard it afterwards in places
where the body of water, coming over the plains,
rushed down from a higher level. None could tell
whence all the water came. Some, as in the former
flood, said that the Waters of the Missouri were