At length they spared me, telling me I was a little dog, and had not long to live, and that he (Primeau) would find me when he came back.
"Then I went to Frog Plain (Kildonan), in charge of Boucher.

In going to the plain I was again threatened by one of the party, and saved by Boucher, who conducted me safely to Frog Plain.

I there saw Cuthbert Grant, who told me that they did not expect to have met us on the plain, but that their intention was to have surprised the Colony, and that they would have hunted the Colonists like buffaloes.

He also told me they expected to have got round unperceived, and at night would have surrounded the Fort and have shot everyone who left it; but being seen, their scheme had been destroyed or frustrated.

They were all painted and disfigured so that I did not know many.