Rev. Mr. Beaver says of them: "About the middle of the summer of 1836, and shortly before my arrival at Fort Vancouver, six Indians were wantonly and gratuitously murdered by a party of trappers and sailors, who landed for the purpose from one of the company's vessels, on the coast somewhere between the mouth of the river Columbia and the confines of California. Having on a former occasion read the particulars of this horrid massacre, as I received them from an eye-witness, before a meeting of the Aborigines Society, I will not repeat them. To my certain knowledge, the circumstance was brought officially before the authorities of Vancouver, by whom no notice was taken of it; and the same party of trappers, with the same leader, one of the most infamous murderers of a murderous fraternity, are annually sent to the same vicinity, to perform, if they please, other equally tragic scenes. God alone knows how many red men's lives have been sacrificed by them since the time of which I have been speaking. _He also knows that I speak the conviction of my mind, and may he forgive me if I speak unadvisedly when I state my firm belief that_ THE LIFE OF AN INDIAN WAS NEVER YET, BY A TRAPPER, PUT IN COMPETITION WITH A BEAVER'S SKIN." One other case we will give to illustrate the conduct and treatment of this company toward the Indians under their "_mild and paternal care_," as given, not by a chaplain, or missionary, but by Lieut. Chappel, in his "Voyage to Hudson's Bay in H. M. S. _Rosamond_." He relates that on one occasion, an English boy having been missed from one of the establishments in Hudson's Bay, the company's servants, in order to recover the absent youth, made use of the following stratagem:--