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With a view to correct erroneous or exaggerated Reports of a Massacre
of fourteen white men which may reach Your Grace through other
channels, I deem it my duty to place the facts before you, as it will
be impossible for the Governor of British Columbia to communicate
them to your Grace by this Mail.

2. The Statements of the Survivors of this sad tragedy, together
with the newspaper accounts, which I enclose, and which are
substantially correct, leave me little to add.

3. The party of men who have lost their lives in the manner detailed
in these papers, were employed by "Mr Waddington", an enterprising
and highly deserving member of this community, in forming a Trail or
Road from the Head of "Bute Inlet" to the Cariboo Mines in British
Columbia, and had prosecuted this work for a distance of forty miles
North of the Head of the Inlet, at which point the Massacre took
place.

4. The Tribe or part of the Tribe of Chillcoatens who have committed
this atrocity do not exceed sixty in number, and I have every reason
to believe and hope that the capture and identification of the
culprits will shortly be effected by the prompt and vigorous measures
which I feel certain Governor Seymour will adopt. This will be
rendered more easy by the aid of more powerful and friendly Tribes in
their immediate neighbourhood, who are always ready to give up
culprits on condition of being rewarded for so doing.

5. The Survivors are now in hospital here and I have transmitted
their depositions to Governor Seymour and will not fail to afford him
every assistance in my power to vindicate the Law.

6. It is known that the Chillcoaten Tribe are peculiarly jealous of
their women and in the absence of any assigned reason for this
ferocious proceeding, I would fear that the residence of a number of
single white men among the Chillcoatens, and the almost certain
results, may be among the causes which have led to the catastrophe.