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ming, &c. and took such precautions that the interview passed off without results. Pontiac was allowed, perhaps unwisely, to escape. On the morning of the same day, an English party who were sounding the entrance of Lake Huron were seized and murdered. Amherst to Gladwin. On the eighth, Pontiac ap- Weyman's New-York Gazette, 11 July, 1763, No. 239, 3 1. Glad win to Amherst. peared once more with a pipe of peace, proposing to chap VII.} 1763. May. come the next day, with the whole Ottawa nation to renew his friendship. But on the afternoon of the ninth, he struck his tent, began hostilities, and strictly beleaguered the garrison, which had not on hand provisions enough for three weeks. The first man that shall bring them provisions, or any thing else, shall suffer death. Such was Pontiac's proclamation of the blockade of Detroit. On the tenth there was a parley, and the garrison was summoned to capitulate to the Red Men as the French had done to the English. Not till aft