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The Pontiac Manuscript
Afterwards he went down to the south shore to speak evil of the English officers, and utter an infinite number of silly things about the Frenchmen who were at the fort, until several persons, seeing that he was a rascal, threatened to arrest him and take him to the fort to have him punished; whereupon he, fearing that these threats might be realized, fled, and took the route for the Illinois, at the end of three days, and was never seen again in these parts. The commander, learning the same day from that young lady that the Frenchman had offered himself several times before, and had asked the merchant to speak for him, reproached the merchant for not having mentioned it.
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