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an account of which ,and indeed of all the other Lakes, 



you may exped: elfe- where. Here the Hurons and 

 Outaouas have, each of 'em, a Village ; the one be- 

 ing fever'd from the other by a fingle Paliffadoe : 

 But the Outaouas are beginning to build a Fort up- 

 on a Hill, that ftands but iooo or 1200 paces off. 

 This Precaution they were prompted to by the 

 murder of a certain Huron, call'd Sandaouires y who 

 was affaffinated in the Saguinan River by four young 

 Outaouas. In this place the Jefuits have a little 

 Houfe, or Colledge adjoyning to a fort of a Church, 

 and inclos'd with Pales that feparate it from the 

 Village of the Hurons, Thefe good Fathers lavifh a- 

 way all their Divinity and Patience to no purpofe, 

 in converting fuch ignorant Infidels : For all the 

 length they can bring 'em to, is, that oftentimes 

 they'll defire Baptifm for their dying Children, and 

 fome few fuperannuated Perfons confent to re- 

 ceive the Sacrament of Baptifm, when th&y find 

 themfelves at the point of Death. ThtCoureurs de 

 Bois have but a very fmall fettlement here ; though 

 at the fame time 'tis not inconfiderable, as being 

 the Staple of all the Goods that they truck with the 

 South and the Wefl Savages ; for they cannot avoid 

 paffing this way,when they go to the Seats of the 17/i- 

 mfe, and the Qumamis, or to the Bay desVuants, and 

 to the River of Miffifift. The Skins which they im- 

 port from thefe different places, muft lye here fome 

 time before they are tranfported to the Colony. 

 Milfilimaklnac is fituated very advantageoufly ; for 

 the Irocjuefe dare not venture with their forry Ganows, 

 to crofs the Straight of the Illimfi Lake, which is 

 two Leagues over j befides that the Lake of the Hu- 

 rons is too rough for fuch flender Boats : And as 

 they cannot come to it by Water, fo they cannot 

 approach to it by Land, by reafon of the Mar/hes, 

 Fens, and little Rivers, which 'twould be very diffi- 

 cult to crofs; not to mention that the Straight of 

 the Illinefe Lake lies ftili in their way. You 



