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with safety; and having thus shewn themselves to be the next best guides in the brigade to Paul, they were immediately taken prisoners, without the slightest alleged pretence or accusation. and aAt the second rapid , Williams desired asked Paul to name whom whe would nominate to conduct the canoes down, when upon which the latter, perceiving his drift, replied, "that he would not nominate any others, as if he did, they too would be taken prisoners." The brigade however, which consisted of seven canoes, met with no serious accident, and although in great confusion, from the want of guides and steersmen, they, with much difficulty, loss of time, and danger, reached Fort William in safety pursued their voyage prosecuted their voyage to their destination.

That the object of these aggressions was not in any degree either to further the ends of justice or even to follow up the Earl of Selkirk's malicious prosecutions, but to cripple the means, destroy the energy, and finally to expel the traders of the North West Company from the country, became evident from a variety of other circumstances besides those already mentioned

M^r Frobisher and M^r Campbell with the men then taken were sent off on early in the morning of the 232^d of June, in separate canoes, for Jack River, whence their further adventures will be hereafter detailed, when the next exploit It is now however of Williams and his gang

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