--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. The Illinois, Metchigamias at Fort Chartres, number two hundred and fifty men. The Kaskakias, six leagues below, have a village of one hundred warriors. The Peorias, at the Rock, are fifty men. The Kaokias, or Tamarois, can furnish two hundred men, All those savages comprehended under the name of Illinois have, for device, the Crane,

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the Bear, the White Hind, the Fork, the Tortoise.

River of the Missouris.

The Missouris. The Okams or Kamse, the Sotos, and the Panis. This only as a note, not knowing any thing of these Nations except the name.

-- The

Lake Erie

Detroit.

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The Hurons at present are two hundred men, bearing arms. They mark the Tortoise, the Bear and the Plover. The Pouteouatamis have a village there of one hundred and eighty men.* vice the Golden Carp, the Frog, the Crab, the Tortoise.

River St. Joseph.")

They bear for de-

(See South of Lake Michigan;

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The Outawas there have two villages, composed one of the tribe of Sinagos the other of Kiskakous, and may count two hundred warriors. They have the same devices as those of Missilimakinac that is to say, the Bear ;