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The Pontiac Manuscript
They required them in a speech to give them powder and balls, and if they would not give them up, they robbed them of their merchandise and everything else, giving them as good reason that they had nothing more to fear on the part of the English, who were unable to give them any trouble, and giving them to understand that all the tribes where there were English traders or garrisons had attacked them all together, and that the Sauteux of the Saginaw and those of the Grand River would come to join them, and that all together would cut off the passages so that no more Englishmen could come to live on their lands.
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