The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . y was Sunday, and late in the afternoonPontiac and several of his chiefs paddled across theplacid river to smoke the pipe of peace with the officersof the fort. Gladwin, suspicious of so much protestation,refused to go near them; but Captain Campbell, un-willing to lose a chance to pacify the Indians, smoked thepeace-pipe with them outside the fort, and took back toGladwin the message that next day all the nation wouldcome to council, where everything would be settled tothe satisfaction of the English, after which the Indianswould immediately disper
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . y was Sunday, and late in the afternoonPontiac and several of his chiefs paddled across theplacid river to smoke the pipe of peace with the officersof the fort. Gladwin, suspicious of so much protestation,refused to go near them; but Captain Campbell, un-willing to lose a chance to pacify the Indians, smoked thepeace-pipe with them outside the fort, and took back toGladwin the message that next day all the nation wouldcome to council, where everything would be settled tothe satisfaction of the English, after which the Indianswould immediately disperse, so as to remove all suspicion. At ten oclock next morning the anxious watchers be-hind the palisades saw a fleet of canoes coming aroundthe lower point of the long island, and as the swift-dart-ing boats, hurried by paddle and current, covered thethree miles of water the soldiers counted fifty-six ofthese barks, each carrying seven or eight Indians. The 1 Rogerss Journal Doubtless this is the origin of the romance ofthe Indian girl. 118. THE PONTIAC WAR bows of the canoes rested lightly on the sand of thesloping bank, and the warriors made their way to thefort only to find the gates fast barred against them. In-stead of the cordial welcome they expected, an inter-preter met them with the message that not above sixtychiefs might enter. Whereupon Pontiac, enraged atseeing the futility of all his stratagems, and yet con-fident of ultimate success, in his most peremptory man-ner bade the interpreter sa} to Gladwin that if all theIndians had not free access to the fort, none of themwould enter it. Tell him, said the angry chief, thathe may stay in his fort, and that I will keep the coun-try. Then Pontiac strode to his canoe, and paddled forthe Ottawa village. His followers, knowing that thefight was on, ran like fiends to the house of an English-woman and her two sons, whom they tomahawked andscalped. Another party paddled swiftly to Isle auCochon, where they first killed twenty
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