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The Pontiac Manuscript
This poor gentleman was extremely ill-treated by the Indians when he arrived. While taking him from the boat they beat him with their fists and sticks to make him howl, until he reached their camp, where he was at once adopted by an Indian woman, who had lost her husband, and, looking at him in pity, took him for her second husband; by this means his life was saved.
Pontiac and the Ottawa Indians having learned from the Hurons at their return that the small bark still remained at the mouth of the river, formed the plan of taking it. For this purpose they started down the river at daybreak to the village of the Foxes, to whom they communicated their project and were joined by them with great joy as if the affair was as good as done.
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