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The Pontiac Manuscript
The principal one was that the Illinois nations strongly recom-
mended to the nations of Detroit not to do any harm to the Frenchmen who inhabited the shores, nor to those who were in the fort, at least, so long as they did not take sides with the Englishmen.
This day another great council was held at the Huron village, between them, the Oats, the Wolfs, the Ottawas, and the Foxes, and at the end of the council Pondiak, by virtue of his rank as great chief of all the nations of the north, adorned by a war-belt, took up the war-hatchet, and chanted war against the English, inviting all the chiefs who were in the council to do the same, telling them that the Master of Life had ordered him to make war upon the English, without sparing them, and that the place must be free When his father should come in the fall.
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