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the Illinois, who killed a great number of them } 

 the reft of them took fhelter on the river of the 

 Outagamies, which falls into the bottom of the 

 Bay. 



Here they fettled on the banks of a kind of lake* 

 And I do not know whether it is not from theif 

 living on fifh, with which the lake plentifully fup* 

 plies them, that they had the name of Stinkards 

 given them, there being nothing to be feen along 

 the whole fhore where their cabbins were built, 

 but ftinking fifh, with which the air was perfectly 

 infected* It appears at leaft that this is the original 

 of the name the other Indians had given them be- 

 fore us ; and which has been communicated to the 

 Bay, from which they have never gone to any con- 

 fiderable diftance. Some time before they quitted 

 their ancient poft, they had a mind to revenge 

 the check they had got from the Illinois 5 but this 

 enterprize occafioned them a new difafter, from the 

 effects of which they have never recovered them- 

 felves. Six hundred of their beft warriors em* 

 barked, in order to go in queft of the enemy ; but 

 as they were crofTing Lake Michigan, they were 

 furprized by a furious tempeft, in which they all 

 periftied to a man. 



We have in the Bay, a fort erected on the wef- 

 tern more of the river of the Outagamies, and half 

 a league from its mouth 5 before you arrive at it, 

 you leave on your right a village of the Sakies* 

 The Otchagras have lately fettled themfelves near 

 us, and have built their cabbins quite round the 

 fort. The miilionary who is lodged pretty near 

 the commandant, is in hopes, that when he fhall 

 have learned their language, he may poflibly find 

 more docility amongft them, than amongfb the 



Sakies, 



