Into the fort the horde dashed.

Here stood more squaws with weapons; and before the garrison had time to seize their arms, Lieutenant Jamette and fifteen soldiers were slain and scalped, and the rest made prisoners, while the French inhabitants stood by, viewing the tragedy with apparent indifference.
Etherington, Leslie, and the soldiers were held close prisoners.

A day or two after the capture of the fort a Chippewa chief, _Le Grand Sable_, who had not been present at the massacre, returned from his wintering-ground.

He entered a hut where a number of British soldiers were bound hand and foot, and brutally murdered five of them.
The Ottawas, it will be noted, had taken no part in the capture of Michilimackinac.

In fact, owing to the good offices of their priest, they acted towards the British as friends in need.