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The Pontiac Manuscript
of the Indians, who possessed themselves of all. They put the barges into the river to take them to Pontiac's camp, and went up the river along the bank in a single file, one after another. In the first barge there were four English soldiers and three Indians, in the other barges were about the same number of people, and other Indians followed the barges along the shore uttering death cries, and cries of joy from time to time. When the four Englishmen in the first barge saw themselves near a large bark, which was moored in front of the fort, counter-guarding it, they made up their minds to save themselves in spite of the Indians who were with them, and disregarding the risk they ran, hoping that the bark would observe their design and aid them,
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