The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . ged by this failure, no sooner was he safe outsidethan Pontiac flung his warriors against the fort in succes-sive assaults, but the pickets were stout, the garrison stoodfirm, and with the aid of one small vessel anchored off inthe river, every assault was repulsed with ease. Meantime, on the appointed day, the tribes far andnear had risen as one man. Their first victims were theEnglish traders, nearly two hundred of whom were scat-tered among the Indian villages, and all but two or threemurdered. Awake at last to the greatness of the danger, G
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . ged by this failure, no sooner was he safe outsidethan Pontiac flung his warriors against the fort in succes-sive assaults, but the pickets were stout, the garrison stoodfirm, and with the aid of one small vessel anchored off inthe river, every assault was repulsed with ease. Meantime, on the appointed day, the tribes far andnear had risen as one man. Their first victims were theEnglish traders, nearly two hundred of whom were scat-tered among the Indian villages, and all but two or threemurdered. Awake at last to the greatness of the danger, Gladwinat once sent off a vessel to Niagara for help. Then Pontiac resolved to starve the garrison out. Sohe pitched his camp two miles below the fort, where hecould intercept vessels coming with supplies, withoutwhich Pontiac kneAV the place could not long hold , however, was determined not to give up so 84 PONTIACS WAR, 1763 long as a morsel of bread or a charge of powder was left. The way between Pontiacs camp and the fort was scat-. PONTIACS FIUE-CANOES. tered with the houses of the inhabitants, whom the chief-tain compelled to feed his squalid army. Not a manstirred to help the imperilled garrison. Its one hope,therefore, lay in prompt relief from Niagara. But for PONTIACS WAR, 1763 85 this the crafty Pontiac had set his trap, as we have watching the river day and night some of the reliefvessels were taken, while others reached the fort only af-ter desperate fighting. Pontiac tried to destroy these bysending fire-canoes down upon them, as they lay at an-chor, at night, under the guns of the fort. Pontiac kept two secretaries, one to write his letters,and one to read those he received, though, Indian-like, hetrusted neither. In payment for provisions he gavebirch-bark receipts with his own totem, an otter, scrawledupon them. Quick to adopt the best methods of his ad-versaries, Pontiac was fast becoming a skilful general;yet, though he styled himself King f
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