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Europeans, never ftifle the feelings of nature, 

 in a father's breafl, or incline him to force his 

 children, and much lefs to controul them in their 

 Inclinations. By an admirable fympathy, dcferv- 

 ing of admiration, thofe only are married, who 

 love each other. 



The Illinois Indians were forrherly the mod 

 formidable in Loufiana^ but the continual wars, 

 \;s'hich they have been engaged in, againft the 

 northren nations, have reduced them to a very 

 fmall number. The hatred of the Canada Indi- 

 ans againft them, arifes from the incurfions which 

 the Illinois w^ere uled to make into their coun- 

 try, and becaufe they took and killed in thefe 

 -inroads, both the male and female beavers, 

 which among thefe nations is reckoned a crime 

 and cowardice, becaufe they make a great com- 

 merce v/ith the fl^ins of thefe amphibia ^% which 

 they exchange for European goods. 



In 1752, the Indians of the tribe of Jioakias 



met £\K Indians of the nation oiFoxcs^ hunting -f- -, 



Vol. I. K they 



.•■ Beavers are quadrupeds and probably called, by our au- 

 thor, afnpkihia for no other reafon, but becaufe they may 

 be eaten as fifh on the Jours maigres F. 



f Their true name is Outagamis ; they inhabit the coup. 

 tf-y to the weft of the Lake Michigan. 



