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Miffionaries have ftill found fome Traces of the antient Rigour 

 with which they ufed to fupprefs Crimes. Theft in particular was 

 looked upon as a Blot which difhonoured a Family, and every 

 one had a Right to wafli away the Stain with the Blood of the 

 Delinquent. Father Breheuf one Day faw a young Huron who 

 was killing a Woman with a Club, he ran to him to prevent it, 

 and afked him why he committed fuch Violence, She is my 

 Sifter, replied the Savage, ftie is guilty of Theft, and I 

 will expiate by her Death, the Difgace fhe has brought upon 

 me and all my Family." My Letter is juft now called for, 

 and I conclude with my Aflurances of being, 



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LETTER XVIII. 



Foyage from Detroit (the Strait) to Michillimakinac^ 

 Defer iption of the Country, Of the Marriages of the Sa- 

 vages. 



Madam, Michillimakinac, June 30. 



IT was the i8th of this Month that I at length departed in 

 good Earneft from the Fort of Pontchartrain at Detroit^ a lit- 

 tle before Sun-fet. I had fcarce gone a League, when a Storm, 

 De artur" 'rem ^^^^"^P^^^^^ "w'iûi a Deluge of Rain, ob~ 

 T\ ^ .^I ^^"^ liged me to go alhore very wet, and we 



^ * pafTed the Night very unpleafantly. The 



next Day all that I could do was to crofs the Lake of S^t, Claire^ 

 though this FafTage is but four Leagues, The Country ap- 

 peared to me good on both Sides. At half Way we leave upon 

 the Left Hand a River which is at leaft feventy Yards wide at 

 its Mouth. They call it the Huron's Ri^er, becaufe thefe Sa- 

 vages took Refuge here during the War with the Iroquois* On 

 the Right, and almoft oppofite, there is another, the Entrance 

 of which is twice as wide, and which they go up eighty Leagues 

 without meeting any Fall, which is rare in the Rivers of this 

 Country. I could not learn its Name. 



The Route to Fort Detroit, from the End of the Traverfe, is 

 Eaft North Eaft ; from thence we turn to the North by the Eaft, 

 even to the South for four Leagues, at the End of which on the 

 Right Hand we find a Village of Miffifague%, fituate on a fruitful 

 Soil at the Entrance of fome very fine Meadows, and in the moQ. 



agreeable 



