Statement respecting the Earl of Selkirk's Settlement of Kildonan ...

—r-'^;f,,'1 , 'r'96\§uBannerman's children, and Alexander Sutherland,settlers, and likewise Anthony M'Donell,a servant, were prisoners, having been takenbefore the action took place. With the exceptionof myself, no quarter was given to any of us.The knife, axe, or ball, put a period to theexistence of the wounded ; and on the bodies ofthe dead were practised all those horrible barbaritieswhich characterise the inhuman heart ofthe savage.The amiable and mild Mr. Semple,lying on bis side (his thigh having been broken),and supporting his head upon his hand, addressedthe chief commander of our enemies, byinquiringif he was Mr. Grant ; and being answeredin the affirmative, ' I am not mortally wounded,'said Mr. Semple ; ' and, if you could get meconveyed to the fort, I think I should live.*Grant promised he would do so; and immediatelyleft him in the care of a Canadian, whoafterwards told, that an Indian of their party'.l***^came up, and shot Mr. Semple in the breart.I entreated Grant to procure me the watch, oreven the seals, of Mr. Semple, for the purpose oftransmitting them to his friends, but I did notsucceed. Our force amounted to twenty-eightpersons, of whom twenty-one were killed, andone wounded. The Governor, Captain Rogers,Mr. James White, surgeon, Mr. AlexanderM'Lean, settler, Mr. Wilkinson, private secre-