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The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 59 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Louis returned to my tent, the Nontague Chiefs came to summon me, on the part of the Commandant of the Fort, to strike my flag which I had hoisted over my Tent, inasmuch as I was under the guns of the Fort. I always answered Indian fashion; I knew no flag but that of their Father Onontio which I carried, and it should not be lowered until I was tied. Contrary to the custom of lowering it at sundown, it re-mained flying night and day the whole of the time I was constrained to remain at that post.