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antithere was only a low fence, over which I easilyclimbed. At my entrance I found the wholefamily at the windows, gazing at the scene ofblood before them. I addressed myself immediatelyto M. Langlade, begging that hewould put me into some place of safety untilthe heat of the affair should be over; an actof charity by which he might perhaps preserveme from the general massacre; but whileI uttered my petition M. Langlade, who hadlooked for a moment at me, turned again tothe window, shrugging his shoulders and intimatingthat he could do nothing for me:"Que voudriez-vous que j'en ferais?"This was a moment for despair; but the nexta Pani woman, 52 a slave of M. Langlade's,beckoned me to follow her. She brought meto a door which she opened, desiring me toenter, and telling me that it led to the garret,Langlade to assume charge of affairs at Mackinac.Soon after the Pontiac War he moved to Green Bay,where he lived until his death in the year 1800. In theRevolution he was a staunch upholder of British interests,leading his red followers repeatedly against theAmericans. Editor.62The Panics are an Indian nation of the south.Author.This is quite true, but the term pani as here usedmeant simply an Indian slave, without regard to histribal origin. It is a curious fact that as in Europe theword slave, originally a national name, was degraded toits present significance of bondman, so among the redmen of North America the name of an Indian tribecame to have a like significance. Editor.81