he open, and killed.

On June 4, populous Michilimackinac of northern Michigan was pillaged.
The Chippewas and Sacs celebrated the King's Birthday, in honor of the
English, with a great game of lacrosse in front of the post.
Michilimackinac _did not know that Detroit was being besieged_! The
gates were left open, the officers gathered to witness the game. The
ball was knocked inside the palisades, the players rushed after--and
that was the end of Michilimackinac.

On June 15 the little fort of Presq' Isle, near the modern city of Erie
on the Lake Erie shore of northern Pennsylvania, was attacked. It was
captured in two days, by the Ottawas and Potawatomis from Detroit.

On June 18, Fort Le Boeuf, twelve miles south of it, was burned. Just
when Fort Venango, farther south, fell to the Senecas, no word says,
for not a man of it remained alive. June 1, Fort Ouatanon, below
Lafayette on the Wabash River in west central Indiana, had surrendered.

Niagara in the east was threatened; Fort Legonier, forty miles
southeast of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, was attacked by the Delawares
and Shawnees, but held out; the strong Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg), with
garrison of over three hundred soldiers and woodsmen, was besieged by
the united Delawares, Shawnees, Wyandots and Mingo Iroquois.

A second Bloody Belt had been dispatched by Pontiac from Detroit; as
fast as it arrived, the allies struck hard. Of twelve fortified
English posts, eight fell. Not only that, but the fiery spirit of
Pontiac had aroused twenty-two tribes extending from Canada to
Virginia, and from New York to the Illinois. A hundred English traders
were murdered in camp, and on the trail. A thousand English are
supposed to have been killed. Five hundred families of northern
Virginia and of western Maryland fled for their lives.

While this work was going on, and the frontier settlements shuddered,
and feared the morrow, Pontiac was sternly sticking to his siege of
Fort Detroit.

The French around there complained to him that his men were robbing
them of provisions, and injuring the corn-fields.

"You must stand that," rebuked Pontiac. "I am fighting your battles
against the English."

He gave out receipts, for the supplies as taken. These receipts were
pieces of bark, pictured with the kind of supplies taken, and signed
with the figure of an otter--the totem of the Ottawas. After the war
every receipt was honored, by payment.

Only his Ottawas we