Grant told me that they were taken to weaken the Colony, and prevent its being known that they were there--they having supposed that they had passed the Fort unobserved.
"Their intention clearly was to pass the Fort.

I saw no carts, though I heard they had carts with them.

I saw about five of the settlers prisoners in the camp at Frog Plain.

Grant said to me further: 'You see we have had but one of our people killed, and how little quarter we have given you.

Now, if Fort Douglas is not given up with all the public property instantly and without resistance, man, women and child will be put to death.' He said the attack would be made upon it that night, and if a single shot were fired, that would be a signal for the indiscriminate destruction of every soul.