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The Pontiac Manuscript
What made them believe that the escaped prisoners' report was true, was that there were seen passing in the rear of the fort in the woods about three hundred men, who went down the river to join the Foxes and Hurons, who were camped half a league below the fort, when all together went to the lake. Only the chiefs of each nation remained behind to give orders to the young men who remained with them to watch the surroundings of the fort, from fear that any Englishmen should come out of the fort to go to the shore, which they had no mind to do, knowing well that it would not be good for them.
The same day, in the forenoon, the judge and the commissary visited the French houses for the third time to get provisions upon which to live until the return of the bark, which was shortly expected.
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