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on his parole of honour, to visit the Hudson's Bay Company's post and people at Isle à la Crosse, whence he returned, and proceeded on to the west a with the North West people to the next establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company called Cumberland hous[e.] He was here again permitted to visit the post and people there, upon his parole of honour, but broke his parole, and never returned, thus making his escape, did not return into custody.

These canoes party canoes, it appears, brought a rumour that a party number of halfbreeds and Indians were mustering to remove the blockade and release the prisoners taken, which struck such a panic into the doughty Williams Governor Williams and his party, that on the following day he broke up his camp early in the morning in great hurry and confusion, and proceeded with flotilla and all his forces, which now consisted of about 120 men, towards the North end of Lake Winipie, taking his prisoners with him, who were pu each put in separate embarkations.

On th In the night of that day M^r William Mackintosh contrived to make his escape. His indisposition, which was a diarrhea, requiring his frequent retirement, gave him an the opportunity while they were encamped on the side of a river, a peninsula jutting out into the lake, to construct, at various short intervals, in the woods, close to

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