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The Pontiac Manuscript
Nevertheless, the fierceness of the firing vexed the English officers, who were always afraid of a storming assault being imminent, and they were undecided whether to remain or to take to the ships. They were somewhat assured by a Frenchman, who had been a long time with the Indians and had several times been in war with them—he told the English officers of the Indian warfare and assured them under penalty of his life that the Indians would never try to storm the fort. This assurance from the mouth of a disinterested man who knew the Indians' manners and their ways of doing things in war, which he explained in detail to the commander and the officers, raised their spirits. The fire of the Indians lasted only till 7 o'clock in the evening, after which only occasional shots were fired in long intervals. Nevertheless the commander and all his officers passed the night in the same way- as the one before, so as not to be surprised.
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