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The Pontiac Manuscript
Friday, July 1. The Indians, who were roving around the' fort and the settlers' houses, had frightened animals on the shore, and one herd of them came into the fort. The herd consisted of three oxen, three cows and two calves, and belonged to Mr. Cuillerier.
Mr. St. Martin, interpreter of the Hurons, who, since the commencement of the siege, had abandoned his house, which was built six arpents southeast of the fort, because the Indians hid behind it for shooting, which caused the Englishmen to fire upon it, and seeing that he was not safe from either Indians or English, had retired to live with Father Poitier until the end of these difficulties. Having had the day before a conversation with a Huron, who had told him, in confidence, that the Indians wanted to force the Frenchmen to take up arms against the English,
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