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Conspiracy of Pontiac
The Seige of Detriot
The guide set fire to the rafts when they had reached within twenty rods of the vessel, and swam ashore. The watch discovered the rafts. All hands were summoned, and the vessel hastily carried into the stream, the rafts passing within less than twenty feet.
A few days after this Pontiac made a great feast, and invited all the Canadians. They went, and ate. When they had done he proposed to them to join him, and take up arms against the British. They explained to him the nature of the late cession, and of their oaths not to take up arms against the British, and he excused them. *
During the summer Pontiac kept large parties of Indians on the lake to intercept all boats coming up; and in the course of the siege he took from thirty to forty.
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