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The Pontiac Manuscript
Thursday, May 26, at daybreak, the Frenchmen, with some soldiers, were ordered to raise up the cavalier, which they had been forced to leave unfinished on account of the Indians, who at this time rested in their camps. The raising was done with all possible vigilance. While they were finishing this work and preparing to come back, a Frenchman wanted to walk towards the lime-kilns, and came near being wounded by an Indian who was reconnoitering in one of the kilns and who, as soon as he fired his shot, went to hide himself further off in a ditch, where there seemed to be others. The Frenchman, who mistrusted that there were more, retired as fast as possible and returned to the fort with the others. During this time, a Frenchman, named Mr. Labroce, a resident of the fort, who, on the day before, had, with leave of the commander, gone out on business, returned and brought news of the capture and defeat of Sandusky by the Huron Indians of the bad band
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