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The Pontiac Manuscript
The commander listened to them, and gave them a flag, which they accepted as token of union, and went out without having gained anything but the flag.
Friday, June 17, passed without any movement on the part of the Indians. Although they had, in the council held on the 17th of the month before, decided not to allow any person from outside to enter the fort, there were nevertheless some favored ones who had the liberty of going and coming, to attend to their business at the two sides of the fort, wherever their business called them. It was by means of one of these that the commander knew ' that the bark was in the lake, at the mouth of the river, and that it had been seen by a man named Repus, who had been hunting ion the lake coast.
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