CHAPTER X.
AFTERCLAPS.
The Seven Oaks affair was the most shocking episode that ever occurred in North-Western history.

The standing of the victims, including a Governor appointed by the Hudson's Bay Company, his staff men of position, the unexpectedness of the collison, the suddenness of the attack, the destruction of life, the cruelty and injustice of the killing, and the barbarous treatment of the bodies of the dead, by the Bois-brules war party, fill one with horror, and remind one of scenes of butchery in dark Africa or the isles of the South Sea.
This is the more remarkable when it is considered that so far as known in the whole two hundred years and more of the career of the Hudson's Bay and Nor'-Wester Companies not so many officers and clerks of these two Companies have altogether perished by violence as in this unfortunate Seven Oaks disaster.

No sooner was the massacre over than the Bois-brules took possession of Fort Douglas and were under the command meantime of Cuthbert Grant.

There was the greatest hilarity among the Metis.

This New Nation had been vindicated.