The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay CompanyNew pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States . would take. Put-ting through drafts on the Hudsons Bay Company formoney, he hired interpreters, secretaries, outriders,and assumed pomp that would have done credit toa kings ambassador. Sailing to New England withBen Gillam, he cut a similar swath from Boston toNew York, riding like a Jehu along the old post roadin a noisy endeavor to rehabilitate his own he sailed for England where condign humil
The conquest of the great Northwest; being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay CompanyNew pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States . would take. Put-ting through drafts on the Hudsons Bay Company formoney, he hired interpreters, secretaries, outriders,and assumed pomp that would have done credit toa kings ambassador. Sailing to New England withBen Gillam, he cut a similar swath from Boston toNew York, riding like a Jehu along the old post roadin a noisy endeavor to rehabilitate his own he sailed for England where condign humilia-tion lay in wait. The Company was furious. Theyrefused to honor his drafts and would not pay himone pennys salary from the day he had surrenderedto Radisson. The wages of the captured servants,the Company honored in full, even the wages of thedead in the wreck of The Prince Rupert. Bridgarwas retained in the service, but severely reprimanded. Notes on Chapter IX.—Practically the entire contents ofthis chapter are taken from the documents in Hudsons BayHouse, London. Details of the Companys affairs are from theMinute Books, of the fracas with Radisson, from the affidavits 178. Q- OS CI. H Radisson and the Adventurers of John Outlaw, who first went to the bay as a poacher withyoung Gillam, and from the affidavits of Bridgars crew. It has always been a matter of doubt whether Gillam the wreck of The Prince Rupert. The question issettled by the fact that his wages are payable to an attorneyfor his heirs. If he had lived, it was ordered that he was tobe arrested for complicity in piracy with his son. The ultimate fate of Ben Gillam I found in the Shaftesburycollection of papers bearing on Captain Kidd. His name isvariously given as William and James, but I think therecan be little doubt of his identity from several the first place, the Gillam whom Mr. Randolph arrested forpiracy (and was given a present by the Company for so doing)was the Gillaum lat
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