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The Pontiac Manuscript
Most of them did not know how to go about it, and those who did know took good care not to tell it, saying, as a good excuse, they knew not how to start it. Pontiac, seeing that he could gain nothing from that side, and as yet unwilling to have by force what he hoped to have them do voluntarily—I mean their work—tried another scheme, and told Mr. Campbell by Mr. LaButte to write to the commander what he would dictate to him in the presence of all his brothers, the French. Mr. Campbell, who did not want to displease a man whose wickedness he commenced to see, did so. This letter stated that Pontiac awarded to the commander the liberty to retire with his barks and all his men, with only what they actually had on their bodies, as Mr. Bellestre had done, and that the rest of their goods should remain;
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