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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The remaining barges, thirty-one in number, proceeded up the river and crossed to the house of Mr. Meloche, where Pontiac and his Ottawas were encamped. The barges were landed and the Indian women, having arranged themselves in two rows with clubs and sticks, the prisoners were taken out one by one and told to run the gauntlet to Pontiac's lodge. Of sixty-six prisoners brought to the shore, sixty-four ran the gauntlet and were all killed. One of the remaining two, who had his thigh broken in the firing from the shore, and who was tied to his seat and compelled to row, had become by this time so much exhausted that he could not help himself.
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