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The Pontiac Manuscript
This offer did not please the commander who wanted the Foxes to give up all the seven prisoners for the two Indians. They would not consent to this exchange and returned the way they had come, putting off the conclusion of the exchange until the day
after.
Saturday, June 11. Since there still remained in the suburb a house and a shed which the fire did not reach, because they were a little farther off than the others, and which served as shelter to the Indians, an officer went out with twenty men to burn them down, and by this means to make the ground clear; on the return of this expedition the same officer had his men empty and put in order the boats and barges, which were stranded before the fort, to be ready for use,
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