THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Extract, Memorandum, 1697
La Chesnaye, Charles Aubert, Sieur de in: Ministere des Colonies, Collection Moreau St. Mery Memoires, vol. 2, Fol. 16 verso. and Canada, Corres. Generale, Serie C. 11, vol. 13, fol. 449 and in English Translation of Margry, Vol. 6, p. 26.
p. 26.
Explorations
in the North and West.
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I.
The Coureurs de Bois.
Extract from a memorandum by Aubert de La Chesnaye, 1697.
In the early times the French went only to the Hurons, and later to Missilimakina, where they sold their goods to the Indians at those places, who afterwards went to barter them with other Indians in the further backwoods, lands and rivers; but now the French, who hold licenses in order to make larger profits, get the better of all the Outaouas and Indians of Missilimakina by going themselves in search of the most distant tribes, which annoys the others very much.
It is also this practice which has led to great discoveries being made; and four or five hundred young men, among the best in Canada, are engaged in this occupation.
They have made us familiar with the names of many Indian tribes which we did not know before; and, four or five hundred leagues farther, there are others still unknown to us.
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