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The Pontiac Manuscript
The Indians who had planned to attack them did not sleep that night from fear that their prey might escape them. At daybreak they attacked our travelers while still asleep; without giving them time to wake up, they fell upon them, killed several, and took others prisoners, with the exception of thirty-six men and an officer who, almost wholly naked, threw themselves into two barges, and fled, at all hazards, across the lake to the Sandusky side, without knowing where they were going. All the rest of the barges, to the number of eighteen, with from twenty to thirty men, fell into the hands
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