This certainly looks much like a genuine Indian artifice. The writer then says, that "after repeating several pieces of such stuff, he withdrew with his gang to his camp." The next morning, (Monday, the 9th,) as many as sixty-four canoes were discovered, all or them full of Indians, crossing the river above the fort. A few of them came to the gates and demanded permission for the whole company to be admitted "for a council." The Commandant refused this request, but expressed his willingness that some forty or fifty should come in, that being quite as many as was usual in such cases. The messengers returned to their comrades, who were lying and standing all around the fort, at the distance of two hundred yards. A consultation now took place, and then, we are told, "they all got up and fled off yelping like so many Devils.--They instantly fell upon Mrs. Turnbell, (an English woman to whom Major Gladwyn had given a small Plantation, about a Mile from the Fort,) and murdered and scalped her and her two sons; from thence they went to Hogs Island, about a league up the River from the Fort, and there murdered James Fisher and his wife, also four Soldiers who were with them, and carried off his Children and Servant Maid prisoners; the same evening, being the 9th, had an account, by a Frenchman, of the defeat of Sir Robert Davers and, Capt. Robertson." The sequel of the war, and of the history of Pontiac, will form the subject of our next chapter. CHAPTER VII. Siege of Detroit maintained by Pontiac--The Commandant meditates a retreat--The French propose a conference with Pontiac, which takes place--The latter demands the surrender of the fort, which the Commandant refuses--Vigorous renewal of hostilities--Advantages gained by the Indian army--Arrival of succor to the English--Battle of Bloody Bridge--Pontiac at length raises the siege,--Causes of it--The Indians make peace--His subsequent career until his death--Anecdotes illustrating his influence, energy, magnanimity, integrity and genius--His authority as chieftain--His talents as an orator--His traditionary fame. We have now to furnish the details of one of the most singular transactions which has ever distinguished the multifarious warfare of the red men with the whites--the protracted siege of a fortified civilized garrison by an army of savages. We shall still avail ourselves of the diary contained in the letters already cited, and of other information from the same source.