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The Pontiac Manuscript
The two latter of these three gentlemen went to the Indians without showing that they took interest in the English. They were well enough listened to, enough at least to make Mr. LaButte believe that all would go well in the future, and, leaving Messrs. Godfroy and Chapoton with the Indians, he came back to the fort and told the commander that the business with the savages was in a fair way, that he had left Messrs. Godfroy and Chapoton with the Indians to continue speaking to them, and that he hoped that the English gentlemen would get off at the price of some presents which they would have to make. Mr. LaButte, who believed he knew the innermost disposition of the Indians, did not perceive that he was deceived in his expectations, and that the Indians, especially Pontiac, meant to hide their evil mind by fair words.
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