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7/ aid of the Choctaws, and in so doing they wanto possess themselves of all the plunder. Accordingly they violated their treaty, and before the time on which they massacre was to have been consummated, and upon a time when they were to meet at the French garrison to pay the tribute that had been so unjustly required of them, and which they intended should serve as a pretext for their assemblage at the Fort, they with one impulse seized the knives, axes sg.? of the garrison, which, with their own instruments of wrath, they soon effected a complete and an entire massacre of their self constituted masters, and appropriated to themselves their plunder.

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