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on account of the animosity it frequently occa- 

 sions among people of the same tribe, from the 

 residents of the huts on one side of it being in- 

 habitants of a different country, as it may be 

 termed, from those on the other. During the 

 late war with America, part of them espoused 

 the cause of each belligerent, but a more pru- 

 dent few remained neutral ; quarrels and blood- 

 shed ensued ; indeed no precautions could have 

 prevented such events among so many turbu- 

 lent and untamed spirits living together, and 

 supposing themselves of political consequence 

 to the contending powers. About fifty houses, 

 or more properly speaking, hovels, a church, a 

 chapel, and a house for the Catholic minister 

 resident with them as missionary, compose 

 their village. The habitations are poor, ill-built, 

 and more than commonly dirty; attached to 

 them are small gardens, or rather enclosures, 

 wherein Indian corn and potatoes are planted, 

 and which, with what they raise on the Petite 

 Isle St. Regis, and some others in the St. Law- 

 rence, near the village, that are their own pro- 

 perty, increased by the produce of their fishing, 

 and sometimes hunting parties, constitute nearly 

 their whole means of subsistence ; as indolence, 

 mistaken for the spirit of independence, destroys 

 every idea of improving their condition by the 

 profits of agriculture. A similar reservation of 



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