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

IxxAPPENDIX.rencontr^rent une autre bandedes Sautoux,qui dirent deplus que le docteur M'Laughliii avoitpasse deux joursauparavant, et avoit aiissi cheiche a avoir des sauvagespour Taccompagner a la Riviere Rouge, que cinqSautoux accepterent ses propositions, et qu'ils etoientpartis pour aller joindre Messieurs M'Leod, M'Kenzie,et Leith, et beaucoup d'autres bourgeois de laCoinpagniequi se rassemblcient a, la Riviere Rouge.(Signed)Sworn at Fort William, on the23rd of August, 1816.HisCHARLES G. + BRUCE.Mark.(Signed) SELKIRK, J. P.[translation.]That he (C. G. Bruce) left Montreal to go to Red Rirerwith Mr. Miles M'Douell, to serve as an interpreter for theSautoux language ; that on the 24th day of June, at Lac laPluie, they met several Indians of that nation, who told thedeponent that Mr. M'Lcod and Mr. Alexander M'Kenzie hadcalled together all the Indians of the neighbourhood, to proposethat they should go along with them to Red River, inorder to release Mr. Duncan Cameron, who was detainedthere prisoner by the English of the Hudson's Bay Company,and that if the English would not give him up they wouldtake Mr. Cameron by force, and that whate\;er might befound in the fort should be given to the Indians as a recompencefor their trouble. The Indians who told this wereOniegakuet, Shabint^ and his son. These Indians mentionedthat they themselves refused to follow Messrs. M'Leod andM'Kenzie, but that twenty-one Sautoux had accompanied