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The Pontiac Manuscript
This gentleman would have liked well enough to follow them, but he was short-sighted, and feared, by saving himself from the present danger, to throw himself into another, which might terminate his existence. He did not propose to die sooner than it was necessary. At five o'clock in the morning an officer went out with twenty men to destroy the inclosures of Mr. St. Martin's garden, and cut the grain in which the Indians hid themselves. When these perceived that their hiding place was being cut down and destroyed, they came to stop it, and pursued the Englishmen, who retired into the fort faster than they had come out.
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