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Updated: June 11, 2025
Campbell; "but how did this Pontiac contrive to surprise all the forts?" "Almost the whole of them were taken by a singular stratagem. The Indians are very partial to, and exceedingly dexterous at, a game called the 'Baggatiway: it is played with a ball and a long-handled sort of racket. They divide into two parties, and the object of each party is to drive the ball to their own goal.
"That is very remarkable in a savage," observed Mrs Campbell; "but how did Pontiac contrive to surprise all the forts?" "Almost the whole of them were taken by a singular stratagem. The Indians are very partial to, and exceedingly dexterous at, a game called the `Baggatiway': it is played with a ball and a long-handled sort of racket.
One day, outside the walls on the surrounding plateau, several hundred savages were encamped, ostensibly for purposes of trade, some of them killing time by playing the Indian game of ball the baggatiway of the red-man, la jeu de la crosse of the voyageur. Henry, acting upon a veiled warning by Wawatam, suggested to the officer in command extra precaution.
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