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The Pontiac Manuscript
She would not follow them, but said that, her husband being dead, she wanted to die with him, so they killed her and the servant girl and carried off her two little children to their camp, in order to make slaves of them.
A Frenchman by the name of Goslin, who worked on the island cutting timber, not being advised what was to happen to Fisher, wanted to save himself from danger when he heard the cries of the savages, as they landed upon the island. He was seized on the strand by the Indians, who put him into a canoe, told him to remain there; he had nothing to fear and they meant to do him no harm. He did not believe them and would not remain where the Indians had put him.
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