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The Pontiac Manuscript
Tuesday, June ?, the Indians, who, for three days, had not fired a shot, felt wearied not to use powder, and came at 10 o'clock A. m. to fire away at the fort until 7 o'clock p. m. Since they no longer had barns and other buildings to hide behind while coming near, they shot from behind the hill and often from within the woods, which were nearly ten arpents away from the fort and separated from it by the hill, so that frequently their shots passed over the fort. Other Indians were still further off, hid along the enclosures of
the settlers or in the barns, often so far off as to be out of reach of the sentinels' muskets on account of the cannons which swept the three main fronts of the fort. About 7 o'clock they had shot enough, and retired as satisfied as when they commenced.
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