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The Pontiac Manuscript
I love them not, they know me not, they are my enemies and the enemies of your brothers! Send them back to the country which I made for them! There let them remain.
" Here is a prayer which I give to you in writing, to learn by heart, and to teach it to the red men and their children. " The Wolf answered that he could not read. He was answered, that after his return to earth, he had only to give it to the chief of his village, who would read it and teach it to him and to all the red men by heart, and that it should be said evening and morning without fail, and to do what he had just told him and to tell it to all the Indians in the name of the Master of Life; to drink but one cup, or two at most, daily; to have but one wife and not to run after the wives of others, nor after the maids;
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