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The Pontiac Manuscript
The women of the Ottawas should also enter, carry-
ing guns, cut short, and other arms of attack hid under their blankets and take position in the back street of the fort, waiting for the signal, which should be a [war] cry uttered by the great chief, when all together should throw themselves upon the English and take good care not to hurt the Frenchmen who lived in the fort. The Hurons and Foxes should divide into bands, one to go down the river to stop those who might come, and the other band to be around the fort from afar to kill those who were at work outside, the fort, and that each one should shout the war song in his own village. All these measures being taken, each nation returned to their village with the resolution to execute the orders of their great chief; but although they had taken all these precautions not to be discovered, God permitted that they were discovered, as I am going to tell.
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