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Subject: Too much to read
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14:08 -0800

Hi
These entries looked interesting enough but were far too long so I'm
leaving them for someone else to transcribe. All from Reel 1M19
Alex



Feb.27 1817 John Lewis at Lesser Slave Lake (I think)

..." I repeatedly requested them to allow me to put on my Coat and socks in
consequence of which one of my Feet was severely frozen the night being
cold and the distance from our House to [Alexander] Stewarts House being
about half a mile."...


Mar.3 1817 John McLeod at Ile a la Crosse

..." Ogden attacked me with a cocked pistol. I immediately prepared mine
and was just in the act of taken aim when he desisted."...


April 16 1817 James Bird
..."THE WHOLE five allowed themselves to be led prisoners by TWO
CANADIANS."...


April 18 1817 John McLeod at Ile a la Crosse

[Samuel Black]..."seized all our people at Green Lake and took pofsefsion
of all the Hudson's Bay Company's property there, took all the people to
this place, even the women and children who were not able to walk were
dragged down here"...


May 20 1817 James Bird

..." the death of Henry Hillier who was shot about the 19th of April last
by a party of Horse Stealers."...

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