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towards Frog Plain, they observed a group of Hudson's Baj- 

 people — ^upon which a certain number of the men in the 

 service of the North-west Company, called Bois-Brules Joined 

 the deponent and his couipanions. That these, thinking the 

 Hudson's Bay people meant them harm, because they ad- 

 vanced with their muskets in their hands, the Bois-Brule's 

 wanted to fire on tliem ; but the deponent opposed their 

 doing so. That at last he advanced alone to the Hudson's 

 Bay party to speak to them, and came so near Governor 

 Semple, that the latter took hold of the butt end of the depo- 

 nent's gun, and ordered his people to advance ; that they, not 

 obeying him, and the deponent saying that if they fired they 

 were all dead men. Governor Semple said that they must not 

 be afraid, that this was not a time for it, and that they must 

 fire. Immediately the deponent heard the reports of two 

 muskets fired by the Hudson's Bay people. That at this 

 moment the deponent threw himself from his horse, still 

 holding the mane, and that the horse being afraid, dragged 

 him in this manner about the distance of a gun shot, where 

 he remained. That, from the moment when he was thus 

 carried away by his horse, the firing became general between 

 the people of the North-west and the Hudson's Bay. That 

 the fire was begun by those of the Hudson's Bay. That the 

 men in the service of the North-west Company were about 

 sixty-four in number (of whom thirty were at the beginning 

 of the firing), assembled for the purpose of taking the Hud- 

 son's Bay fort by famine. He is uncertain by whose orders, 

 but supposes it was by the chiefs, that is, Mr. McDonnell, Mr. 

 Grant, Antoine HooUe, and Michael Bourassa. That he heard 

 Mr. McLean enjoin them to avoid a meeting with the Hud- 

 son's Bay people. That after the firing was over he saw a 

 Bois-Brule named Vasseur near Governor Semple, then 

 wounded in the knee and arm, who was taking care of him, 

 and who, notwithstanding, had taken his belt or sash, his 

 pistol and his watch, and afterwards carried them away. 

 That he himself had at the moment saved one Pritchard from 



