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The Pontiac Manuscript
Thursday, June 9, Little Corpus Christi day. The Indians, who only fired from passion, were rather quiet all day. Against 3 P. M., there were heard from the other shore of the river thirteen death cries by the Indians, which excited the curiosity of many persons, both English and French, who mounted upon the stockade of the fort to discover what it might be. They observed a large number of Indians on horseback and on foot, running and uttering cries of joy and repeating the death cries, while they fired upon the large cask which was moored before the fort. Other Indians were also to be seen who came by water along the shore with three barges and prisoners whom they captured on the lake.
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