Their prisoner Lieutenant Pambrun was taken with them and the captured pemmican was carried along as supplies for the journey.
On the way an episode of some moment occurred.

On the river bank a band of Cree Indians was encamped.
Commander Macdonell addressed the redmen through an interpreter to incite them to action.

A portion of his address was: My Friends and Relations,--"I address you bashfully, for I have not a pipe of tobacco to give you....

The English have been spoiling the fair lands which belonged to you and the Bois-brules and to which they have no right.

They have been driving away the buffalo.