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The Pontiac Manuscript
Two hundred and
fifty Ottawas, commanded by Pontiac; one hundred and fifty Foxes, commanded by Ninivois; fifty Hurons under Take; two hundred and fifty Sauteux under Wasson and one hundred and seventy other Sauteux under Sekahos. All were under the authority of Pontiac, their great chief, and all would have been "good dog" if they had wanted to bite.
Friday, June 10, the Indians who had remained in camp had, a day before, learned from some Hurons who had been hunting in the woods behind Lake Sandusky, that the officer who had saved himself with thirty-six men, , was on the Sandusky Islands. Pontiac said that they must be caught, lest they should take the news to Niagara, and he detached fifty men from his own camp, who passed behind the fort through the woods to notify the three hundred who had started on the first of the present month for scouring the lake, to join them for their capture; but luckily, before the two parties had combined, the Englishmen had left the islands in their two barges and started for Niagara by the southern part of the lake.
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