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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The Major was delivered to the Indians, Pontiac stating at the time that if the Indian chief had merely been killed, he would not have surrendered him, but that his body had been so inhumanly butchered that he could not refuse his followers so just a demand. He expressed a great deal of regret at being obliged to do this.
Mr. Gouin, our narrator, was not present at the surrender of Major Campbell, but he heard that the Indians, after procuring Pontiac's permission, went to the house of Mr. Meloche, where they seized the Major and took him to the small bridge, near the house now owned by Colonel Benfait, where they bound him to a post, and having cut off his lips with a knife, they set the boys to work to shoot him with arrows. During all this time the Indians were running about him, crying, " See how our father laughs!"
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