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The Pontiac Manuscript
Sunday, July 24. The Indians, intent upon destroying the bark, worked hard to succeed in their project. The commander ordered a reconnoitering expedition upon the river with the two boats of which I have spoken, in order to annoy them in their work. This was done. At ten o'clock, three officers and sixty soldiers, well armed, embarked in the two boats and one barge and went up the river, to find out the place where they were at work. The Indians, who saw from afar these three vessels, believing that this was some prey for them, left off their work and embarked, to the number of twenty, in two canoes, with their arms, advancing towards the three vessels. The Englishmen, who were aboard, allowed them to approach within musket shot, and the Indians,
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