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The Pontiac Manuscript
This advice, although coming from a savage, was appreciated and found good. He was given in exchange, and Long-Ears was kept, to have, by his means, other prisoners exchanged; but the Foxes were hardly satisfied with their bargain, when they saw their hopes frustrated.
Thursday, June 16. The Indians were very quiet all day. It is usual in all places besieged or surrounded by the enemy that silence be observed, the church bells be not sounded for any purpose, lest the enemy should know the hours when the people go to church, and the bell of the parish church of this place had not been tolled since the beginning of the siege for any church exercises.
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