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The Pontiac Manuscript
Sunday, May 29, the weather was changeable all day, which gave both parties a rest.
Monday, May 30. The English officers had a fish-net, which since the beginning of the troubles had not been used, and several young Frenchmen asked for it, saying they would catch fish for both French and English. It was loaned to them, and two soldiers, who knew how to haul it, were sent along to aid them; but they had no chance to take one single fish, not even to throw the net into the water, because Indians who were in ambush in a ditch, five arpents from the fort, saw them without being seen, and knowing that the French did not use nets for fishing, mistrusted that this was undertaken for the English; and fired several shots upon the bark and upon the fishermen, who retired promptly to the shore, and returned to the fort as they had come out with the net, which was never used after that time.
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