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"Arriving at Fort Douglas, he informed the settlers that 

 the Metis demanded that the colonists should depart, and had 

 promised that if all public property was given up to them, 

 they would give a safe escort to the people and allow them to 

 take all their personal effects. Two other parties of North- 

 westers were daily expected to arrive in the Red River, one 

 coming from the Saskatchewan and the other from Lake 

 Superior, and it would be necessary to send some of the Bois- 

 Brules with them to explain the position of affairs. 



" The colonists at first refused to agree to the terms of 

 capitulation, and Sheriff" McDonnell, who was in charge of the 

 settlement, decided to hold to the fort as long as the men were 

 inclined to protect it. In the morning, however, after they 

 had more fully considered their situation, the settlers con- 

 cluded to depart, and after several visits of the sheriff" to the 

 Metis camp an arrangement was agreed on. 



HOW THE INDIANS ACTED. 



" A number of Indians under Peguis were camped on the 

 east side of the river and took no part in the troubles, but 

 their sympathies were plainly with the colonists. They went 

 out the morning after the engagement and brought in the 

 bodies of the killed, or as many as could then be found, for a 

 small number, I am informed by eye-witnesses, were concealed 

 in the heavy brush in the vicinity, as wounded men had 

 crawled into thickets and there died. Mrs. Kaufman, who yet 

 lives in Kildonan east (since died, 1892), informs me that she 

 saw the Indians bring in the dead bodies to Fort Douglas with 

 carts, and that Governor Semple and the doctor were buried in 

 board coffins, and the others wrapped up in blankets, the 

 whole number being interred in a grove of trees on the south 

 side of the creek southwest of the fort, and quite near the spot 

 whereon now stands the residence of ex-Mayor Logan. She 

 says the body cf one man was naked, the clothes having been 

 stolen before the Indians found it. Mr. Donald Murray also 

 informs me that when the burial took place, Chief Peguis 

 stood near by, with the tears streaming down his face, and he 



