Historic Notes On the Northwest, Gleaned From Early Authors, Old Maps And Manuscripts . . . And Other . . . Sources
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v/ 1 Charlevoix" History of New Fi-auce, vol. 5, p. 65. 124 HISTORIC NOTKS ON' THK NORTHWEST. their enemies, tlie Sionx, witli guns and aniiuunition. It took all the address of Count Frontenac to ])revent them from joining the v^ Ircxjuois : iiKU-cd. tliry seized u])on tlie French agent and trader, Xichi)las Pcn-ot, wlio liad been coiuiiiissioued to lead the Maramek * band to the St. .losephs, and would have burnt liini alive had it not been for tlie Foxes, who intei-posed in his behalf" This w...as the comnu'iiccnu'iit of the bitter feeling of hostilit\' with which, from that time, a ] )art of the Miamis always regarded the French. From this period the movements of the tribe were observed by the French with jealous sus[)icion. ^ We have already shown that in 1699 the Miamis were at Fort Wayne, engaged in transferring across their portage emigrants from Canada to liOiiisiana, and that, within a few years after, the Weas are described as having their fort and several miles of cultivated "fields on the Wea plains below La Fayette.
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