They brought a rumour with them that some whites who had robbed the Indians on the Upper Liard had been murdered.

It was not known what white men had penetrated to that desolate region, and the rumour was discredited; at all events, it was never verified.
The treaty had been effected at Dunvegan, on the 6th, with a few Beaver Indians, who still lingered by their tepees, pitched to the west on the opposite shore.

The half-breeds had camped near the fort pending our arrival, and we found them a very intelligent people, indeed, with some interesting relics of the old regime still amongst them.

One, in particular, had canoed from Lachine with Simpson sixty years before.

He was still lively and active, and a patriarch of the half-breed community.