He was on the ground.

On their approach, as I have said, we had extended our line on the plain, by each taking a place at a greater distance from the other.

This had been done by the Governor's orders, and we each took such places as best suited our individual safety.
"From not seeing the firing begin, I cannot say from whom it first came; but immediately upon hearing the first shot, I turned and saw Lieut.
Holte struggling." (Several persons present at the affair, such as a blacksmith named Heden, and McKay, a settler, distinctly state that the first shot fired was from the Bois-brules and that by it Lieut.

Holte fell).
"As to our attacking our assailants, one of our people, Bruin, I believe, did propose that we should keep them off; and the Governor turned round and asked who could be such a rascal as to make such a proposition?
and that he should hear no word of that kind again.

The Governor was very much displeased indeed at the suggestion made.