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The Pontiac Manuscript
The Hurons of the bad band and the Foxes, who some days before had received news that a sergeant, who had been sent to Niagara in the month of April, to fetch provisions and men, was returning to the fort with assistance of both kinds, resolved to capture all. For this purpose they lay in ambush on the border of the lake to watch them pass. The sergeant, who had no knowledge of what had happened at the fort, where, when he started for Niagara, everything had been quiet, did not mistrust the Indians, and sailed peacefully and without fear across the lake to a point about eighteen leagues from Detroit, where he camped in the evening, according to the custom of the travelers, to do the cooking for the next day. The Indians, who were hid exactly at this place in low places and brushes, let them disembark and prepare their camp, and even pass the night quietly. The men in the convoy, believing themselves in security, left only a guard at the vessels fearing that during the night the wind might change and set the barges afloat, but all the rest slept quietly.
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