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The Pontiac Manuscript
they drank, hid away all their offensive arms from fear that they would kill one another, and fearing also that the adopted prisoners might suffer, they made them hide out of view of their husbands. The chiefs alone did not drink and seeing the disorder which the liquor caused in their camp, they beat in the rest of the barrels and poured the liquor on the ground, by this means restoring union amongst them.
Pontiac, who hardly ever left out of sight Messrs. Campbell and Mc-Dougal, the two prisoners whom he had taken by deceit the first days of the attack upon the fort, had them hid farther off in the house of a French settler and committed them to the care of ten trusty Indians to keep them from being harmed.
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