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tally murdered by one of the Deschamps family, who 

 ran from body to body, perpetrating the crimes of 

 ghouls. It was in vain for Grant to expostulate. The 

 wild blood of a savage race had been roused. The soft 

 velvet night of the summer prairie, with the winds 

 crooning the sad monotone of a limitless sea, closed 

 over a scene of savages drunk with slaughter, of men 

 gone mad with the madness of murder, of warriors 

 thinking to gain courage by drinking the blood of the 

 slain. 



Grant saved the settlers lives by sending them 

 down-stream to Lake Winnipeg, where dwelt the friend 

 ly Chief Peguis. On the river they met the indomitable 

 Miles MacDonell, posting back to resume authority. He 

 brought news that must have been good cheer. Moved 

 by the expelled governor s account of disorders, Lord 

 Selkirk was hastening north, armed with the authority 

 of a justice of the peace, escorted by soldiers in full 

 regalia as became his station, with cannon mounted 

 on his barges and stores of munition that ill agreed 

 with the professions of a peaceful justice. 



The time has gone past for quibbling as to the 

 earl s motives in pushing north armed like a lord of 

 war. MacDonell hastened back and met him with his 

 army of Des Meurons * at the Sault. In August Lord 

 Selkirk appeared before Fort William with uniformed 

 soldiers in eleven boats. The justice of the peace set 

 his soldiers digging trenches opposite the Nor West 

 ers fort. As for the Nor Westers, they had had 

 enough of blood. They capitulated without one blow. 

 Selkirk took full possession. 



* Continental soldiers disbanded after the Napoleonic wars. 



