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The Pontiac Manuscript
Teata and Baby, both chiefs of the good band of the Hurons, which had until then kept neutral, and which would have kept so longer, seeing themselves forced by threats, assembled their band, which numbered about sixty men, and said to them: "My brothers, you see, as well as we, the risks that we all run, and that in the situation of affairs we have no other resource than
either to join our brothers, the Ottawas and the Foxes, or else to abandon our band and to fly with our women and children, which will never do, for we will hardly have gone before the Ottawas and Foxes, and even those of our own nation will fall upon us, kill our wives and children, and force us to do like them; while if-we do so now, we shall be assured that our families will be safe in our village. We do not know what are the designs of the Master of Life toward us; perhaps it is He who inspires this war to our brothers, the Ottawas.
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