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212 ANDREW FISH

For additional evidence I quote from Angus McDonald who has already been referred to. McDonald as Chief-factor at Fort Colville for the Hudson's Bay Company would not naturally be suspected of bias against Douglas. He writes:

The Admiral seems to have shared in a measure the popular British opinion of the Company. Captain Hornby, writing to his wife on December 4, 1859, says:

This evidence is hardly impeachable. To Baynes, Douglas urged that he had "clear and definite instructions" from his government "to treat the islands in the Haro Archipelago as part of the British Dominion"; but, as Baynes pointed out