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The Pontiac Manuscript
The Jesuit father was quartered with his confrater, the missionary of the Hurons.
Sunday, June 19, the fort was not troubled. The arrival of the son of the great chief on the day before caused a suspension of hostilities between . the fort and the Indians. He had placed his camp half a league above that of Pontiac, in a meadow, a league above the fort. The Indians from Erie came to see him, when he disembarked, to give him greeting from their chief. They were received rather coldly and answered that this afternoon he and his men would visit Pontiac to keep council.
At this news Pontiac ordered that all Indians of each nation should stay at home all day to listen to the words of the great chief of the Sauteux by the mouth of his son.
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