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with his son, Pierre Paul, were taken prisoners out of them. These mens' names were likewise included in the charges before alluded to and were then on their route to Canada to present themselves for trial. The valuable property which was on board these canoes was doubtless a great temptation for Williams and his armed banditti to have seized upon; to use a vulgar allusion, their mouths must have watered; but this would have been so glaring a highway robbery, that even their audacious rapacity shrunk from the commission of it. True however to their principles of doing all the mischief in their power, they would not allow Paul to guide the canoes down the first dangerous rapid (there are two almost immediately succeeding each other,) though he represented that he was the only man capable of it, in the hopes no doubt that some disaster might ensue. The canoes, however, fortunately got down without any accident, excepting Paul's own canoe, which was left behind. Seeing then that they would not permit him even to guide his own canoe down, he told Amable Turcotte and Joseph Lepine, two of the men whom he

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