History of American conspiracies: a record of treason, insurrection, rebellion & c., in the United States of America, from 1760 to 1860 . her doings of the council, fur-ther than that the plan was adopted by which to effect thedesign of murdering the garrison and people of Detroit—theFrench only to be spared. The plan was for Pontiac, with abody of his best braves, to obtain admittance within the pali-sade under pretense of performing the calumet dance for the THE CALUMET DANCE. 41 edifioation of tlie garrison and Englisli commander, MajorGladwjm, whom they would honor, after their long absenc
History of American conspiracies: a record of treason, insurrection, rebellion & c., in the United States of America, from 1760 to 1860 . her doings of the council, fur-ther than that the plan was adopted by which to effect thedesign of murdering the garrison and people of Detroit—theFrench only to be spared. The plan was for Pontiac, with abody of his best braves, to obtain admittance within the pali-sade under pretense of performing the calumet dance for the THE CALUMET DANCE. 41 edifioation of tlie garrison and Englisli commander, MajorGladwjm, whom they would honor, after their long absenceduring the winter. This was a preliminary for obtaining in-formation regarding the fortification and garrison. The council broke up at dusk. During the night the entiremultitude of men, women and children struck their tents anddisappeared, passing up the river to their old encampmentsnear Detroit; and when morning came it was to find the redskin host suddenly installed in their lodges within sight of thefort. Their coming and going always were so mysteriouslyconducted that their reappearance at that time attracted no According to announcement Pon-tiac, with forty of his warriors, ap-peared on the 1st day of May (1763)at the gates of the palisades, askingadmittance in order to perform theirdance of peace before the command-ant and his men. The request wasnot granted without some hesitan-cy. Gladwyn, however, desiring topreserve the good will of the savages, finally consented totheir appearance, when the savages, decked and plumedin their gayest apparel, entered, in single file, Pontiac attheir head. They at once proceeded to the house of Glad-wyn, before which the dance was duly given, with all its abo-riginal absurdity. All the Indians were not present, however,to assist in the ceremony. Ten of them dropped out of line,as they filed thi-ough the streets, and while the remaining^6 42 THE CONSPIKACY OF PONTIAC. thirty were engaged in the dance, the spies were at w
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