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THE IROQUOIS AND OTHER INDIAN TRIBES.

At Three Rivers. See Montreal .

The Algonquins . - fifteen men..

The Tetes de Boule or Tribes of the Interior.

These are wandering Savages who have no knowledge either of the order or form of vil-lages, and those who evince the least intellect ( esprit ); they inhabit the mountains and thelakes from Three Rivers, in the interior, to Lake Superior . Their armorial bearings (To-tums) are unknown, if they have any.

Boston and Orange.

The Loups (Mohegans) who understand the Babenakis and whom the Hbenakis understandare dispersed from Boston to Virginia, which is equal to from Lake Champlain to the head ofLake Erie—300 leagues. This nation may be six hundred men, under British rule. No per-son could give me any information of their customs. This only by way of remark.

Montreal .

Algonquins. They are twenty men settled with the Iroquois of the Two Mountains; this isall that remains of a nation the most warlike, most polished and the most attachedto the French. They have for armorial bearings an Evergreen Oak ( chene vert.) - 20

At the Lake of the Two Mountains.

The Nepissingues. A part of this Tribe is incorporated with the Iroquois . The remainder

has its village at the lake of the same name. There are here fifty men bearing arms. 50The armorial bearings of this Nation are the Heron for the Achague, or Heron tribe ; theBeaver for the Amekoves; the Birch for the Bark tribe ( lafamille de PEcorce); Blood for theMiskouaha or the Bloody people.

Remark, Sir, if you please, that besides the bearings of the principal stocks to which I ex-clusively confine myself, leisure not permitting me to obtain thdrough details, each tribedistinguishes itself by peculiar devices. The Iroquois who are masters of this village, amount

to no more than sixty-three—I mean warriors. .60

At Sault St. Louis .

The Iroquois , who compose exclusively the village are nearly three hundred and three

bearing arms..300

These two villages proceeding from the Iroquois of Lake Ontario , or Frontenac, have thesame armorial devices. Three principal tribes carry the Wolf, the Bear and the Tortoise.

Note. —Argent , to the Wolf gules, &c.

They usually ornament them merely with charcoal.

The Great River of the Outawas.

At Lake Nepissingue there is one small village of thirty men, who bear a Squirrel, AtchitamH. 30

River and Lake Themiscaming.

The Tabittibis are one hundred warriors.100

They have for device an Eagle.

At the mouth of the Themiscaming there are twenty warriors. 20

At the head of the Lake twenty domiciled.20

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