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The Pontiac Manuscript
His incredulity became dear to him, because, when he tried to save himself in the interior of the island, the Indians took him for an Englishman who was saving himself, ran after him and killed him. When they came to scalp him they recognized him as a Frenchman, took him into their canoe and handed him over to the French, who interred him in the cemetery.
About four o'clock p. m. an inhabitant of the east shore, Mr. Desnoyers, who had gone to the pinery, twenty-five leagues above the fort, to cut ship-timber, came back with some Sauteux of the Saginaw, who had fetched him.
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