Alarm was now general among the French half-breeds.

Hitherto the English half-breeds had been loyal to the Company.

Alexander Ross gives an incident worth repeating as to how even the English half-breeds became rebellious.

He says: "One of the Company's officers, residing at a distance, had placed two of his daughters at the boarding-school in the Settlement.

An English half-breed, a comely well-behaved young man, of respectable connections, was paying his addresses to one of these young ladies, and had asked her in marriage.