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The Pontiac Manuscript
This story deserves a place here, because it seems to be the source of one of the blackest attempts upon the English nation, and perhaps on the French, if God, in His mercy, had not disposed otherwise.
The story is told as follows: An Indian of the Wolf nation, desirous to seethe "Master of Life, " as all Indians call the good God, resolved to undertake the journey to Paradise, which he knew to be his residence, without having communicated anything to his nation, or to his village. But the question arose as to the way leading there, in order to succeed in his project, and not knowing anyone who had been there and could show him the way, he began to juggle, in the hope of securing good luck, by dreaming,
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