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-rence crossing it by night to avoid being seen from the posts. They got over the river where it was thirty miles wide before morning and hid their canoes, concealing themselves so as to be out of sight of the telescopes at the posts, but before night they were surprized by a large number of the Hudson Bay Co. employees who had been watching them for some time. They were taken prisoners, all their furs taken from them and were tied up and terribly whipped. Their guns, knives, hatchets and a very little food were then returned to them and they were told to go home, instead of doing which they returned and made quite a successful spring hunt. On their return to the South side they were again overtaken, and surrounded, but the Governor ordered them to fight. The attacking party seemed to think that they did not have enough furs to fight for and

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+-rence crossing it by night to avoid being seen from the posts. They got over the river where it was thirty miles wide before morning and hid their canoes, concealing themselves so as to be out of sight of the telescopes at the posts, but before night they were surprized by a large number of the Hudson Bay Co. employees who had been watching them for some time. They were taken prisoners, all their furs taken from them and were tied up and terribly whipped. Their guns, knives, hatchets and a very little food were then returned to them and they were told to go home, instead of doing which they returned and made quite a successful spring hunt. On their return to the South side they were again overtaken, and surrounded, but the Governor ordered them to fight. The attacking party seemed to think that they did not have enough furs to fight for and