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The Pontiac Manuscript
but they violated the promises which their chiefs had made to the settlers and commenced again to kill and steal the animals. About five o'clock p. m., there were seen in the woods behind the fort a very large number of Indians, who came along the lake and ascended to go to the camp with scalps, uttering death cries, to the number of twenty, mixed with cries of joy for making known that they came from fighting somewhere. It was the remainder of those who had taken Fort Sandusky. At the same time a rumor spread in the fort that all Frenchmen who had hired out to traders to go with them to Michilemakinak had been killed by the Sauteux and Ottawa Indians at that post, but this news was found be false later on.
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