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History of New France
Charlevoix, Rev. P. F. X. de; Shea, John Gilmary, transl. and ed.
In: History and General Description of New France, in
six volumes, Vol. V, 1902, pp. 141-142.
pp. 1 (Title page), 141, 142.
HISTORY AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION
OF
NEW FRANCE
BY
REV. P. F. X. DE CHARLEVOIX, S. J.
TRANSLATED
FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITION
AND EDITED, WITH NOTES, BY
DR. JOHN GILMARY SHEA
WITH A
NEW MEMOIR AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TRANSLATOR
BY
NOAH FARNHAM MORRISON
IN SIX VOLUMES
Vol. V.
LONDON
FRANCIS EDWARDS
FRANCIS P. HARPER, NEW YORK
1902
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deputies to Gannentaha, which Father Bruyas had already reached; the Mohawk deputies promised to come down by Lake Champlain, and the ambassadors, followed by two hundred Iroquois, set out for Montreal, where they arrived on the 21st of July.(see fn. 1) |
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The next day seven or eight hundred Indians from the territories on the north and west also landed. Both were received with salvos of artillery, and the Rat, orator and chief of the delegation from the Hurons of Michilimackinac, in whom de Callieres confided for the |
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Followed by the deputies of our allies. |
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entire management of our allies, paid that Governor a very fine compliment in the name of all. On the 25th de Callieres began to converse in private with all the deputies, and had no little to do to bring them all to his wishes; but to understand the disposition of the majority it is necessary to state briefly the difficulties encountered by the Sieur de Courtemanche and Father Anjelran in their negotiation. |
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On reaching Michilimackinac they found most of the Indians off hunting; this compelled them to dispatch runners to inform them of the object of their coming. Courtemanche, leaving his colleague at that post to negotiate with the Ottawas and Hurons, then |
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The disposition of our allies. |
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proceeded to St. Joseph's River, which he reached December 21st, 1700, having gone forty leagues in snow-shoes. |
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There he found, besides the Miamis long residents at the place, Pottowatamies, Sokokis,(see fn. 2) Foxes, Hurons, and Mohegans(see fn. 2) (Mahingans). |
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He learned that the two first of these nations had sent war-parties against the Iroquois, and that the Miamis were preparing to do the same. By threat of the Governor-General's indignation he induced the last, not only to hold back their braves, but also to send after the others and induce them to march back. He found it more difficult to bring them to terms in regard to the Iroquois pris- |
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(con't. from fns. p. 140) Doc., iv., p. 900. He at the same time got from the sachems a deed of nearly all Upper Canada and other parts of the west. See deed, Ib. pp. 908-911. |
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1De la Potherie, iv., p. 194. He witnessed and describes
their reception at Sault St. Louis by the Christian Iroquois. |
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oners, whom they had adopted, and could not bring themselves to give up. He succeeded, however, and all promised to come to Montreal at the appointed time. |
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This done, he started for the Illinois, whom he reached on the 28th; all except the Kaskaskias were on the point of taking the war-path against the Iroquois, and he diverted them by the same means that he had employed to retain the Miamis. The Kaskaskias also thought of marching with the Ottawas against the Cansès, a Louisiana tribe, and he stopped them. Returning then to Chicago, where he found some Weas (Ouyatanons) a Miami tribe, who had sung the war-song against the Sioux and against the Iroquois, he obliged them to lay down their arms and extorted a promise to send deputies to Montreal. |
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On the 5th of May he reached the Mascoutins, who were making great preparations for war, and he had great difficulty in winning them over, though he at last succeeded. He continued his route towards (Green) Bay, where he arrived on the 14th; there he found Sacs, Otchagras, commonly called Puants, Malhomines, more generally called Folles Avoines, Foxes, Pottowatamies and Kicapoos. He addressed each nation in private, then assembled all, and after much discussion, he stopped three hundred braves, about to take the field to rush upon the Sioux, who had recently made an incursion into the Foxes, and from each of these tribes he obtained deputies for the general peace. |
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On the 2nd of July he returned to Michilimackinac, after a journey of more than four hundred leagues. There he found all things well arranged by the care of Father Anjelran, who had rescued from the hands of the Ottawas, two Iroquois, quite recently taken on some |
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expedition not mentioned. They agreed between them that the missionary should set out for Montreal with the two prisoners, and that de Courtemanche should wait at Michilimackinac for the deputies whom he had not brought along. |
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That officer's presence was also necessary at that post, to dissipate the difficulties raised by restless Indians in regard to the restitution of the other Iroquois prisoners, |
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