After delivering this letter we proceeded to
the house of a Canadian trader, who we had pre-
viously been informed would furnish us with
accommodations.

In the evening the Commandant followed us
to our quarters, discovering marks of great re-
spect and attention, and appears to be a gentle-
man. He has urgently pressed us to dine with
him to-morrow, and we have accepted the invi-
tation.

31st.

This morning the commanding officer,
accompanied by John Johnson

and William
Wells, the two other persons named in the letter
to the Secretary of War, waited upon us. They