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 ;

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and Black Squirrel. 15815

• Note in Orig.

Instead of 180, only 100 men must be counted.

THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

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Lake St. Clair, which leads to Lake Huron.

At the end of the Little Lake St. Clair, there is a small village of Mississagues, which numbers sixty men.

They have the same devices as the Mississagues of Manitouatin and of Lake Ontario ; that is to say, a Crane.

Lake Huron. I have spoken before of

the Mississagues who are to the North of this Lake.

I do not know, on the South side, but the Outawas, who have at Saguinan a village of eighty

men, and for device the Bear and Squirrel.

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Less,

15875 Remark. All the Northern Nations have this in common that a man who goes to war denotes himself as much by the device of his wife's tribe as by that of his own, and never marries a woman who carries ;

a similar device to his. If time permitted, you would, Sir, have been better satisfied with I would