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The Pontiac Manuscript
About 6 o'clock p. m., Mr. La Butte went out several times, by order of the commander, to pacify the Indians and to try to get at their secrets by pumping them. But the Indians, and especially Pontiac, got tired of his coming and going, and told him to go in and not come out again, or they would all pounce upon him. Unable to gain anything, he went back into the fort and gave hopes to the officers that the following day the Indians would be more tractable. The commander ordered in the evening at roll-call that all Englishmen in the fort, both traders and soldiers, should be on guard all night on the bulwarks, so as not to, be surprised in case of attack at daybreak, which is the hour at which the Indians generally attack when they go to war.
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