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"& et M^r Clarke se sont entrés dans sa loge, & et lui a ont dit que ni lui ni ses enfants garçons seraient permis d'en sortir; qu'il les en defendaient de la part du Roi, & et que se aucun d'eux sortît il serait pris tout comme les gens du Nord Ouest; disant de plus qu'ils etaient venus là pour prendre les gens du Nord Ouest." i.e. "that they came with a large barge or batteau loaded with cannon, musquets and bayonets, spears of pikes with handles five or six feet in length, and other arms", "that, seeing this military array he suspected their appearance there was for some extraordinary purpose; that M^r Williams and M^r Clarke came into his lodge, and told him that neither he nor his sons would be allowed to go out of it; that they forbade them to do so in the King's name, and that, if either any one of them attempted to go out, they he should be […] seized like the people of the North West Company; saying further that they had come there for the purpose of taking the people of the North West Company prisoners."

This purpose they soon had an opportunity of putting in practice.

For the more effectually fulfilling this pu purpose, they landed a one of the pieces of brass cannon and two swivels loaded with grapeshot and placed it on this artillery, loaded on a point of land, where it commanded the foot of the rapid, raising a breastwork, and digging a trench behind it. with an abattis in front. The other piece of artillery remained in

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