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The Pontiac Manuscript
When, at seven o'clock in the evening, the fire of the Indians ceased, the commander, who feared that under cover of night the Indians should make some attempt either for storming or firing the fort, ordered two things: one, that tubs and barrels be put on the four corners of the fort, on the street and on the bulwarks, and that the Frenchmen, who had voluntarily remained in the fort to the number of twenty persons, should draw water for filling the vessels; and since they had not sufficient men, and it seemed that the help which they expected would not come soon enough, he being short of provisions of war and mouth, ordered secondly, that the French should retire into their houses at tattoo, with fires extinguished in their houses, and that the troops should go from the fort to the barks to embark the goods of the officers, their own and those of the traders, and that everybody should keep himself ready to go aboard the barks at the first signal in order to return to Niagara.
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