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The Pontiac Manuscript
Pontiac, delighted by the success of his speech, told the Hurons and Foxes to return to their villages. In four days he would go to the fort with the young men of his village, to dance the pipe of peace, and while the dancers would be doing their business, other young men would ramble around in the fort, in order to examine well all that might happen, the number of the English garrison, the amount of trading and the homes of the traders. It came to pass as he had said.
Sunday, the first day of May, about three o'clock in the afternoon, when the French returned from vespers, Pontiac, with forty men whom he had selected, came to present themselves at the gate for entrance; but the commander, whose suspicions had been aroused by something in the conduct of the Indians, had ordered the sentinels not to admit any Indians.
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