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The Pontiac Manuscript
When they passed to the right of the pinery, the
Frenchmen at work there, who had been advised of the evil intentions of the Indians against the English, called to them, to warn them, but the gentlemen would not believe what the Frenchmen told them, and replied that when they left the fort everything was perfectly quiet. The French warned them again and again, and advised them not to go any farther, saying that the Indians paid deference to them, and that they would see to their safe return to the fort. They would not listen to their advice, proceeded on their journey, and met with the Indians, who were encamped on a point of land at the river shore. When the Indians saw them, they called to them, and showed them meat and other eatables to entice them, but the gentlemen would not go to them, which made the Indians mad
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