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has been recounted.

OIn the course of the same day following day, 23^d of June, other two light canoes belonging to the North West Company, reached the pass that had thus been blockaded. In these were M^r Angus Shaw, M^r John George Mackintosh MacTavish, and M^r William Mackintosh, partners of that Company. As usual, in order to lighten the canoes, Messieurs Shaw and MacTavish, with their servants, and six of the canoemen, landed at the head of the rapid, to walk down the portage, whilst M^r Macintosh, being in a bad state of health, and unable to endure the fatigue of walking, remained in his canoe to shoot the rapid. When this party party came to the foot of the rapid and they were surprised to see a military descried by the sentinel, an alarm was given and they were immediately surrounded by the armed soldiery, and M^r MacTavish was told he was a prisoner (his name His name was in the list of pretended list of criminals, or rather what may be called Lord Selkirk's prosciption list, but neither at that that, nor at any other, time, did Williams, or any of the persons under his command, produce any authority or warrant, or assign any lawful cause, or even pretext, for their conduct, beyond the arbitrary authority which Williams assumed as a Governor under the charter of the Hudson's Bay Company, and that as such he had a right to do taking arresting him

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