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The Pontiac Manuscript
The Ottawas had taken with them Mr. Campbell, their prisoners and their interpreter, Mr. LaButte, in the hopes that the presence of the officer would cause the men in the bark to give it up and that it would get into their power. They were however, grossly mistaken, the men in the bark would not listen to them at all, and only answered the Indians by cannon and musket shots which caused the Indians to retire until evening, believing that they would succeed better during the night. But the men in the bark knew their tricks and mistrusted that during the night the Indians might make some other attempt to capture them, and there being only seven of them, which small force could not long have resisted two hundred, they resolved to depart in order to spoil the plans of the Indians and save themselves and the bark from their claws.
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