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The Pontiac Manuscript
At two o'clock in the afternoon Kinonchamek, followed by his own people and the Chavoinons and the Wolfs, came to the camp of Pontiac to keep council, as he had notified him before. On his arrival in the camp all the chiefs assembled and formed, according to their custom, a
kind of circle, in silence. When each Indian had taken his place, Kinonchamek arose and took the floor in the name of his father, and, addressing Pontiac, he said: "We have heard, my brothers, that you make war wholly differently from us. We have, like yourselves, undertaken to drive the English from the face of our land, and we have succeeded; but it has been done without soiling ourselves with their blood after having taken them as prisoners, as you do.
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