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The Pontiac Manuscript
They brought with them a calumet, which they called, amongst themselves, the pipe of peace, and wanted to speak. The commander gave them audience. They did by their speeches all they could to deceive him and to entangle him and all his troops in the snares which they set for him. The commander, being
fully aware of their bad intrigues, feigned to believe them, in spite of what he had heard, but nevertheless kept on his guard.
Pontiac said to him that, in proof of his not harboring any evil designs, he had brought with him the pipe of peace, to be smoked by them together, in token of union, and that he would leave it in his hands, in testimony of their uprightness; that as long as he had this, he had nothing to fear from them.
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