Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd, 1877- [from Old Catalog]
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The Indians watched their movements from the brush and fell upon them about daylight. One officer and thirty men escaped upon the lake, but the others were either killed or cap- tured. The line of barges ascended the Detroit River near the opposite shore, escorted by the Indians on the bank and guarded by detachments in each boat, in full view of the garrison and of the French settlement near by. In the foremost boat were four soldiers and only three savages, and, as the shallop came opposite t...he larger of the two sloops which lay anchored before the fort, the one who acted as steersman determined to escape. He called out in English to his companion, who was near one of the Indians, and told him to throw the Indian over- board. The soldier answered that he was not strong enou^; whereupon the steersman directed him to change places with him, as if tired out from rowing, so that no suspicion would be excited in the minds of the guard. The soldier who had conceived the plot now slipped forward, as if to take his companion's oar, but, instead of doing so, he suddenly seized the Indian by the hair, and, gripping him by the waist with the other Digitized byLjOOQlC PONTIAC: THE RED NAPOLEON 177 hand, lifted him from the seat and threw him into the river.
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