|
|
The Pontiac Manuscript
He insisted upon entering, and asked to speak to the commander, saying that he and his chiefs came only to smoke the pipe of peace, in accordance with the promise given to him by the commander. He was answered that he might enter freely, but only with twelve or fifteen prominent men of his nation, and no more. He answered that all his people wanted to smell the smoke of the calumet, and if his people could not enter, he would not do so himself. He was refused flatly and had to return to his village very much dissatisfied, of which these gentlemen cared very little. *
* The commander had notified the French to keep at home, and neither to enter nor to leave the fort.
|
|
|
|
|
|
