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t)cnrpwere lately from the Grand Portage, and appearedseriously apprehensive that the Bastonnaiswere coming into the Northwest.78At the Forks of the River a la Pluie therewere a large number of Indians under a friendlychief, with which latter I had had a previousacquaintance. On nfy visiting him he told methat there was bad news; and then repeated thestory which we had heard on the Lake of theWoods, adding that some of his young men wereevil inclined, and that he wished us immediatelyto depart. We were not deaf to the admonition,of the grounds of which we stayed long enoughto be convinced. We were roughly importunedfor rum; and one of the Indians, after we hadand fired at usembarked, fetched his guntwice, but without effect.No further accident attended our voyageto the Grand Portage, from which place wepursued the route to Montreal, where wearrived on the fifteenth of October. We foundthe province delivered from the irruption ofthe colonists, and protected by the forces ofGeneral Burgoyne.78Bastonnais (Bostonnais, Bostonians) is the nameby which the Canadians describe all the inhabitants ofthe English colonies, now the United States; and in theNorthwest the English traders commonly use theFrench language. Author.