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The Pontiac Manuscript
who went out likewise, with thirty men, put fire to two barns and stables in the rear of the fort and returned at once, mistrusting that Pontiac and the Indians seeing from afar these fires, would come pouncing upon them to cut off their retreat. Luckily something else occupied them all the morning. There were indeed some who watched them, but in so small a number that they dared neither to show themselves nor to fire, for fear of being discovered and attacked. Thus the two parties were afraid of each other.
While the English officers with some of their men were at work to clear the outside of the fort, all the Indians held a council in Pontiac's camp, where several French settlers of the coast were called in order to try to engage them by fair work to join them and teach them how to open a trench, which the French had no mind to do.
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