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all to Hudson Bay, adding, if any resistance was offered, tha no mercy should be shown. But Mr. Thomason was not thu aware of the coalition of the two companies, and I did not thin proper to tell him of it However Mr. Robert Thomson ougt to build a fort this Fall.

“ I am surprised you did not take charge of the goods brought out last Spring by La Grosse Téte ; I find one half of them haw been squandered, and the other half hid in Lac Bourbon when they cannot be found.

“ I have Cardinal here for Mr. McGillivry, he has promise me to look for the provisions hid by Lacerte in an Island! could not take my man from the English, he is engaged to them for several years. They are determined to hire as many of ow men as they can.

‘“ I am dear Roderic, “ Yours sincerely,

‘ Ile à la Crosse, 1st Oct. 1781.

“ Dear Roderic.

“ [have yours of the 11th ult. per Constantineau, now befon me. The accident of the 14th of Augt. was very unfortunate à it has left me destitute of all necessaries and equipments f inland. Were it not for that accident, I should, by this time, in the Athabaska Rivér with all the canoes ; now I am afriil that the goods cannot get there this season...

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