On Monday morning when, at a few minutes before ten, I drove to the cricket-ground where the Indian games were to take place, in the presence of the Prince, I found an immense concourse of people gathered, in a state of excitement, in front of a small door or opening in a paling which surrounded the limited territory in question.

“Keep back, keep back, you're killing these ladies, ” was the cry of a man clinging to the paling above the small doorway, and who kept alternately goading and soothing the crowd in their passage from purgatory to paradise.

As I walked across the smooth turf towards the stand which had been erected on the town side of the inclosure for the accommodation of the Prince and party, I saw a number of figures, chiefly Indian, in tightly fitting red and white and blue and red garments, standing here and there in picturesque groups. These were the players. Approaching nearer, I saw that the Indians wore feathers, in their caps, and had their faces painted.

At ten o'clock the Prince arrived, and took his place on the stand amid loud cheering.

The first lacrosse game now commenced between sixty of the Algonquin tribe and an equal number of the Iroquois, and, after a spirited contest, was given in favor of the latter, in order to enable the Prince to witness the match between twenty-five Montreal gentlemen and as many Algonquins. Lacrosse is a game combining foot-ball and rackets, or raquets, as it used to be spelt. There is one ball in common, and every player has a racket or bat made of twigs.