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mountains, had held their ground longer than the 

 rest ; but at length they, too, were compelled to 

 fly, together with such other Hurons as had taken 

 refuge with them. They made their way north- 

 ward, and settled on the Island of Michilimack- 

 iiiac, where they were joined by the Ottawas, 

 who, with other Algon quins, had been driven by 

 fear of the Iroquois from the western shores of 

 Lake Huron and the banks of the River Ottawa. 

 At Michilimackinac the Hurons and theu' allies 

 were again attacked by the Iroquois, and, after 

 remaining several years, they made another re- 

 move, and took possession of the islands at the 

 mouth of the Green Bay of Lake Michigan. 

 Even here their old enemy did not leave them in 

 peace ; whereupon they fortified themselves on the 

 main-land, and afterwards migrated southward and 

 westward. This brought them in contact with the 

 Illinois, an Algonqum people, at that time very 

 numerous, but who, like many other tribes at this 

 epoch, were doomed to a rapid diminution from wars 

 with other savage nations. Continuing theu' migra- 

 tion westward, the Hurons and Ottawas reached 

 the Mississippi, where they fell in with the Sioux. 

 They soon quarrelled with those fierce children of 

 the prairie, who drove them from their country. 

 They retreated to the south-western extremity of 

 Lake Superior, and settled on Point Samt Esprit, or 

 Shagwamigon Point, near the Islands of the Twelve 

 Apostles. As the Sioux continued to harass Ihem, 

 they left this place about the year 1671, and 

 returned to Michilimackinac, where they settled, 



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