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called Malbo mines 9 or Folks Avcires; that is, wild 

 Oat Indians. , 



A fmall river very much incommoded with falls* 

 difcharges itfelf into the bottom of this bay, and js 

 known under the name of the Riviere des Renards, 

 or, river of the Foxes, on account of its neigh- 

 bourhood to the Outagamies 9 commonly called the 

 Renards or Foxes. All this country is extremely 

 beautiful, and that which flretches to the fouth- 

 ward as far as the river of the Illinois is ftill more 

 fo ; it is, however, inhabited by two imaii nations 

 only, who are the Kicapous 9 and the Mufcoutins. 

 Some of our geographers have been pleafed to give 

 the latter the title of the Nation of Fire, and their 

 country that of the Land of Fire, An equivocal 

 expreffion has given rife to this denomination. 



Fifty years ago, the Miamis were fettled on the 

 fouthern extremity of Lake Michigan, in a place 

 called Chicagou, from the name of a Imall river, 

 which runs into the lake, the fource of which is 

 not far diftant from that of the river of the Illi- 

 nois ; they are at prefent divided into three villages* 

 one of which Hands on the river St. Jofeph the 

 fecond on another river which bears their name, and 

 runs into Lake Ere, and the third upon the river 

 Ouabache, which empties its waters into the Mif- 

 fifippi ; thefe laft are better known by the appella- 

 tion of Ouyatanons. There can be no doubt, that 

 this nation and the Illinois were not long ago the 

 fame people, considering the great affinity which is 

 obferved between their languages % but I fhall be 

 able to fpeak of this with greater certainty when I 

 fhall be on the fpot. I fhall only obferve farther, 

 that the greateft part of the Algonquin nations, if 

 we except thofe who are farther advanced to the 

 3 fouth- 



