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The Pontiac Manuscript
One, named Jacquemin, who seemed to be the leader of the barges, was given by the Hurons to the Foxes, who adopted him to live amongst them. The goods remained in the hands of the Hurons, who were so much occupied with them that they forgot all about the fort. Amongst the goods there was liquor, and the Huron women, who feared that their husbands would by this liquor be caused to do even worse
things than they had commenced doing, threw themselves upon the barrels, broke them in and spilled out all there was in them, except a cask of sixteen pints, which an Indian saved from the hands of the women, which was hid in the wood and divided between them and the Foxes. There were only very few who would drink, fearing there was deadly poison in it, having heard that the English wanted to poison them.
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