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The Pontiac Manuscript
This same day at 2 o'clock the Hurons, who had received some intimation that a sally would take place, pretended to abandon their village, burned old canoes and other worthless stuff on Point Montreal in view of the fort, embarked women and children and their very dogs, and descended the river as if they meant to go into winter quarters. Several Frenchmen really believed so, and one of them reported so to the English, who believed him, without, however, assuming the risk of going to the village, mistrusting some strate-
gem on the part of the Indians, which was really so; for the Hurons, having descended down the river out of the view of the settlers, had disembarked in the woods, hid their women, children and things and returned through the woods to the right of their village, where they laid in ambush, waiting for the English to come to their village as they had understood they meant to do; but they did not come.
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