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The Pontiac Manuscript
Friday, July 29. All night there was a fog so thick that nothing could be distinguished. Towards daylight it became a little lighter, and at five o'clock in the morning, at an hour when such a sight was least expected, a great number of barges were seen on the river to the right of the River Rouge. This created considerable excitement in the fort, everybody believing that this was some party of Indians, who came to join those around the fort, for the Englishmen did not know that this was assistance coming to them, although indeed they expected such. In order to find out what this might be they fired a cannon-shot from the southwest side.
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