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The Pontiac Manuscript
Pontiac, exasperated by the safe arrival of the bark, and seeing that in spite of all his plottings and designs the English received assistance in provisions and men, resolved to make the settlers take up arms by force or friendship, and to succeed in his project he made all the heads of families and old men come to a council at his camp, as he said, for things of importance to them. When all were assembled, he took the floor as usual; speaking to all the Frenchmen, and holding up a war-belt in the centre of the council, he said to them: " My brothers, I am heartily tired to see this bad flesh on our lands, and hope you feel the same way. I think, I perceive, that you are far off not from conspiring with us for their annihilation. Yet it seems to me that you have given them comfort to our prejudice.
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