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The Pontiac Manuscript
Pontiac, furious to see his last stratagem failed and all his projects come to naught, upon his return to his village, seized the tomahawk and chanted the war song, saying, since he could not slay the English at the fort, he would slay those outside of it. He ordered that all his people, men, women and children, should cross the river to the side of the fort, in order to be better able to harrass it and put up their camp on the river at the hut of Mr. Baptiste, half a league above the fort, which was done punctually. He divided his people into several bands to operate at different places. One band was sent a dozen arpents in the rear of the fort where an old English woman lived with her two sons, who cultivated seven or eight arpents of land on their own account and kept much cattle, such as oxen and cows. Those poor people who had no thought of danger were killed and scalped,
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