The Indians of the Village perceiving by our Countenances that we were acquainted with the outrages committed upon our friends discontinued their rejoicing and the exhibition of their plunder[.]

My business being confined to the Villages and their Vicinity I lost no time in adopting the necessary measures for securing the Trade of that quarter[.]

M^r Larocque who was to ascend the mississourie on discovery, was opposed in his views by the Indians who insisted upon his return to Red river without going any further on his expedition[.] They asserted that if the white people would extend their dealings to the Rocky Mountains, The Mandane Villages would thereby become great sufferers – as they not only would lose all the benefit which they had hitherto derived from their intercourse with these distant tribes – but that in measure as these tribes obtained arms they would become independent and insolent in the extreme[.] This remonstrance was made in a Tone which could not fail to cause uneasiness to M^r LaRocque –

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