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The Pontiac Manuscript
He promised that [it did not cost him anything to promise] and to cover his malignity better, he gave them the pipe of peace as a certain proof of what he and his men told them. The Frenchmen, and especially Messrs. Chapoton and Godfroy, allowed themselves to be caught in the snares which Pontiac set for them as well as for the English.
During the time that the Indians were concocting this new intrigue, a Frenchman, Mr. Gouin, who accidentally had penetrated the interior of the Indian camp and had had several interviews with Pontiac, where he had seen nothing favorable to the English, and who had some presentiment of what would happen to Mr. Campbell, begged of a Frenchman who passed by his house to go to the fort and warn Mr. Campbell of what had taken place in camp and ask him
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