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"gaspillés par ces gens, qu'il ne pouvait considerer que comme une bande de voleurs et d'assassins, et qui se vantaient toujours de leurs exploits, et de leurs coups fins quand ils étaient au service de Bonaparte". i.e. "that he had thus been forced to abandon all his goods and provisions, which were mostly destroyed and wasted, by these people, whom he could not look upon in any other light than as a band of robbers and assassins, and who were incessantly boasting of their exploits, and their knavish tricks whilst in the service of Bonaparte."

On the 30^th of June, an alarm was given in William's camp, upon two canoes being descried coming down the rapid; the men turned out under arms, but it was soon found that these canoes belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company and had on board Colin Robertson, of notorious memory, and another clerk of that company.

To account for the appearance of Colin Robertson at this time and place, it is necessary to state that having been detained at Fort Chipewyan during the winter, where he was treated and attended and served in the same manner as the North West partners, he was, in May, brought out along with the gentlemen intending to proceed to Montreal, in order there to answer for his conduct. On the way he was allowed

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