The Indian tribes of the upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes : as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northwest; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer, and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong . In reading the Jesuit Re-lations (of which full sets of the original editions are even now quite rare)Tailhan used the Quebec edition; but as the various Relations are therein sep-arately paged, his references to them extend in the present edition only to thechapter, which can be cons
The Indian tribes of the upper Mississippi Valley and region of the Great Lakes : as described by Nicolas Perrot, French commandant in the Northwest; Bacqueville de la Potherie, French royal commissioner to Canada; Morrell Marston, American army officer, and Thomas Forsyth, United States agent at Fort Armstrong . In reading the Jesuit Re-lations (of which full sets of the original editions are even now quite rare)Tailhan used the Quebec edition; but as the various Relations are therein sep-arately paged, his references to them extend in the present edition only to thechapter, which can be consulted even more easily in the Cleveland reissue(1896-1901), entitled The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. The latteredition is cited in the present annotations as Jesuit Relations; the former, simplyas Relation of 1650, etc. By shortening Tailhans annotations (in which, how-ever, all that is really valuable has been carefully retained), more space hasbeen secured for later and more scientific information. It may be added herethat in the necessary condensation of Tailhans notes, and of those obtained fromthe invaluable Handbook of American Indians, the exact language of eachwriter has been used when possible, and is enclosed in quotation marks. — Ed. a HO o > ar wHHWIW o•=) hdw(al»OH U^:l ^. 4 Sx>^ f ^ ^ IR r,^ ? ;?.^ 4^? ?I 30K£, Ir CREATION BELIEFS ^35 on it; and after they had carefully examined his clawsand tail they found nothing thereon. Their slight remaining hope of being able to save theirlives induced them to address the otter, and entreat himto make another effort to search for a little soil at thebottom of the water. They represented to him that hewould go down quite as much for his own welfare as fortheirs; the otter yielded to their just expostulations, andplunged into the water. He remained at the bottomlonger than the beaver had done, and returned to themin the same condition as the latter, and with as littleresult. The impossibility of finding
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