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The Pontiac Manuscript
The commander had observed that since the sailing of the bark, the Fox
Indians, who were encamped southwest of the fort, came along the shore under cover of the coast, where there were two lime-kilns, and beyond which they laid in ambush and fired upon the soldiers who had business at the river. The commander ordered, to prevent the Indians from troubling them from that side, to construct a cavalier, to be put upon the strand to guard and to defend the river bank, so that the soldiers could go there without risk. For this purpose two carpenters and several persons who could handle a hatchet were put to work at this structure upon the drill ground, and since they had not the proper timber in the fort for this work, the workmen took up the walks in front of the houses, which they employed in the building of that structure, which at about four o'clock in the evening was ready to be put up.
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