HIWIT ROD WC T TON. 
very, Captain David Vaughan. ‘Phe fole com- 
anand of this:expedition, however, was given to 
“Mr. James Knight, ‘a man of great -experience 
dm the»Company’s fervice, who had been many 
years Governor at the different Faétories in the 
Bay, and who had made'the firft fettlement at 
Churchill River. Notwithftanding the ‘experi- 
_ence Mr. Knight might have had of the Compa- 
ny’s bufinefs, and his knowledge of thofe parts 
of the Bay where he had refided, it cannot be fup-_ 
pofed he was well acquamted with the nature of 
the bufinefs in which he then engaged, having 
nothing to direct him but the flender and imper- 
feé& accounts which’he had received from the In- 
dians, who at that:time ‘were little: known, and 
jefs underftood. 
Vhofe difadvantages, added to ‘his advanced 
age, he being then:near eighty, by no means dif- 
couraged this bold adventurer ; who was fo pre- 
pofiefied of ‘his fuccefs, and of the ‘great advan- 
tage 
The French retired from this place with reluctance ; for fome of them 
were heard fhooting inthe neighbourhood of the Fort ten days after they 
were repulfed; and one man in particular walked up,and- down.the plat- 
form leading from the gate of the Fort to the Launch for a whole day, 
Mr.Fullarton, who was'thenGovernor at Albany, {poke to hinvin French, 
and offered-him kind quarters if he chofe to-aecept them : but to: thofe 
propofals he made no reply, ‘and only fhook his head. «Mr. Follarton 
then told him, that unlefs he would refign himfelf up as a prifoner, he 
would moft afluredly fhoot him ; on which the man advanced neaver the 
Fort, and Mr. Fullarton fhot- him out of his chamber window. Perhaps 
the hardthips this poor man expeéted to encounter in his retutn to Cana- 
da, made him prefer death; but his refufing to receive quarter from fo 
humane and generous an enemy as the Englifh, is aftonifhing. 
NEN! 
