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The Pontiac Manuscript
When they perceived this expedition they were for hindering it, but they were too late, and seeing nothing more which could hide them from the fire of the fort except the other side of the hill, they went behind this and commenced the same practice as the two days before.
The officers, who had expected this, were not much astonished to hear the firing renewed and were getting used to it. They feared, however, an assault, because during the night they had been warned by a Frenchman from without that the Indians meant to storm, and the Indians were around more than the other two days, which seemed to indicate that they had this design. In this dilemma the Englishmen had no other means of saving themselves than to throw themselves into their barks, where their things had been taken on the first day, and to make sail for Niagara,
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