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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The canoes were immediately got out, and the Indians attempted to board her, which they had almost accomplished, there being but three of the crew and the captain left, when the latter cried out to one of his men to fire the magazine. An old prisoner among the Huron Indians understood the order and cried out to the Indians to save themselves. They hastened from the vessel, and providentially a wind sprang up and brought them to
the fort.
About fifteen days after the arrival of the vessel, the chief issued his orders, and the Indians made rafts at Grand Marais of the houses and barns of the Canadians, and attempted to destroy her by means of fire. Two rafts, covered with combustible materials, were attached together by means of a rope, and were intended to run on opposite sides of the vessel.
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