 I concluded that the enemy must be skulking in the cellar... when, lo!What was there but a skunk sitting on a roll of tobacco!The shot blew it almost to atoms, and so delicately perfumed everything in the house that I was scarcely able to live in it for days afterwards...

Ross joined the North West Company in 1813, after they acquired all of the Pacific Fur Company properties, renaming Fort Astoria to Fort George.