THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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Narrative of De Boucherville
(May 1729)
De Boucherville, "Narrative of De Boucherville; Captivity Among
the Kickapoo; Hostility to the Foxes," in:Wisconsin
Historical Collections, XVII, pp. 36-56.
p. 56.
The distance from the Illinois to the Peanguichias is about1 120 leagues and 15 leagues from the Peanguichias to
the Oyas; 60 leagues from the Ouyas to the Miamis; 120 leagues from the
Miamis to Detroit; and 300 leagues from Detroit to Montreal; making 615 leagues
in all.
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1 Called by the English Piankashaw, a kindred tribe to the Ouiatonon.- Ed.
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