The five villages wMch belong to the same tribe, have for their arms in common,

Besides the arms of each village, each tribe has

particular

mark to designate him.

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the Plover, to wMch I belong ; » the Bear, the Tortoise, the Eel, the Deer, the Beaver, the Potatoe, the Falcon, the Lark, and the Partridge.

M. de Joncaire, the supposed author of this Report, is here thought to be alluded to. period by the Senecas, among whom he had much influence.

He was adopted at an early-

THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

I doubt not but

the other nations are as well distinguished, but our voyaguers,

having little curiosity in these matters, have not been able to give me any information.

The Tuscarorens have a village of two hundred and fifty men near the Onondagoes, who brought them along. I know not their hieroglyphics, The Iroquois have some cabins at the Portage, (Niagara, Lake Ontario.)

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Lake Erie and Dependancies, on the South

The Chaouanons towards Carolina, are two hundred men,

Side.

The Flatheads, Cherakis, Chicachas, Totiris, are included under the name of Flatheads by the Iroquois, who estimate them at over six thousand men, in more than thirty villages. They have told me they had for device a Vessel, {un Vaisseau.) The Ontationoue, that is those who speak the language of men so called by the Iroquois

;

because they understand each other

--may be

fifty men.

am ignorant of them.

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The Miamis have for device the Hind and the Crane. These are the two principal tribes. There is likewise that of the Bear. They are two hundred men, bearing arms. The Ouyattanons, Peanguichias, Petikokias, are the same Nation, though in different villages. They can place under arms three hundred and fifty men. The devices of these savages are the Serpent, the Deer, and the Small Acorn.