Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020
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"comme une bande de voleurs et d'assassins, et qui se vantoient toujours de leurs exploits, et de leurs coups fins, lorsqu'ils etoient 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 of their knavish tricks whilst in the service of Bonaparte."
On the 30th 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 and another clerk of that company.
These canoes, it appears, brought a rumour that a party of halfbreeds* and Indians were mustering in order to remove the blockade and release the prisoners
taken,
*A mixed race which exists in the interior of North America arising from the connection of Europeans and Canadians with Indian women.
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in lavender , modifications made by the assumed author(s).
