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CAPTAIN HART'S MASSACRE .5
which he accordingly did. On arriving in front of Francis Lasselle's house, which was about forty rods up the river from Campeau's, he stopped his horse in the road and hailed; and when Lasselle partially opened the front door, Captain Hart earnestly entreated that he would save him from the hands of the Indians. Lasselle answered sorrowfully that it was out of his power to save him; that in the morning, at the beginning of the action, several Indians, mostly Wyandottes, had come into the
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