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were in the same manner as their predecessors in captivity confined in the island at the foot of the rapid, with a guard placed over them, who had orders to shoot any one of them who should attempt shew a disposition to escape[.]

Here they were confined for eight days. an On an occasion of conversing with one of their guards, upon having been assured that it was the firm intention of Williams that should if the canoes of the North West Company had attempted to pass they had would have been fired upon, as there were cannon was ready pointed and loaded ready to sink any canoe which might attempt it, M^r MacTavish asked one of the men, who appeared to have be possessed of more feeling than his companions, whether it was really their intention to shed blood if the canoes had endeavoured to pass; on which he answered "those men" (the Demeuron soldiers from Red River) "will do whatever they are ordered, and I am certain if there was a scuffle, and we had the victory, few would live to accuse us of killing their companions". Racette, the freeman Canadian, before mentioned was all this while also confined to the England island. His opinion of this "soldatesque" was not either very […] the most most favourable. He states that, "il a du ainsi laisser à l'abandon tous ses biens et vivres, qui furent en grande partie

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