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The Pontiac Manuscript
The commander answered he would wait for them and for him also, and made fun of them. This answer did not give pleasure to Pontiac nor to the other Indians, for which the English officers cared very little. At eight o'clock p. M. news was received indirectly that the bark had weighed anchor to come up the river. Tuesday, June 28. A party of Indians who had gone down to capture the bark, in which attempt luckily they had failed, returned to their camp, and in passing saluted the fort with some musket shots, without hurting anybody. In the afternoon there was news that the bark had weighed anchor and was under way. The wind having turned to the southwest she had profited of this moment to get out of her bad position, and she came to the mouth of river Rouge, a league from the fort, where the wind gave out, and she anchored a little below, where she was seen from the fort.
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