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The Pontiac Manuscript
The night passed very quietly, which made the English officers think that they should hold the place longer than they had hoped to, and they made up their minds to endure the attack on the next day.
It is an almost universal rule that all the Indians who live in those parts, are as the wind, going only by fits and starts, and whereof they knew that they would lose men in making war, they would not make it, which frequently caused them to cease as soon as they had commenced, while sometimes it would animate them all the more. These here had had, as I said, dead and wounded, which set them to juggling to see how to go about it so as not to lose any more and to have the fort, which, to hear them talk, sooner or later, could not fail them by reason of the reinforcement, which, they claimed, was coming to them shortly.
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