[6] _The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, xvi, pp. 199, 201. The same custom was followed by the Indians in later periods. See Parker, _A Journey Beyond the Rocky Mountains_ (1835), p. 53. [7] _Jesuit Relations_, xv, p. 157. [8] Margry, _Découvertes_, etc., i, p. 470; _Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society Collections_, xxiv, p. 182. [9] Thwaites, _Father Marquette_, p. 85. The spelling of the Indian names in this dissertation is that used by Hodge in _Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico_. [10] Hennepin, _A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America_, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, p. 631. [11] French, _Historical Collections of Louisiana_, pt. i, p. 56; Margry, _op. cit._, i, p. 527. [12] Shea, _Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley_, etc., pp. lvi, 32; Thwaites, _Father Marquette_, p. 81. [13] _Jesuit Relations_, lix, p. 309. [14] _Jesuit Relations_, lxvii, p. 171. In the south, the term “slave” was used by the Indians, not only in the sense in which it is commonly used, but as applied to dogs, cats, tame and domestic animals, and to captive birds. “So when an Indian tells you that he has a slave for you, it may, in general terms as they use, be a young eagle, a dog, or any other thing of that nature, which is obsequiously to depend upon the master for its substance.” Lawson, _The History of North Carolina, containing the exact description and natural history of that country_, p. 327. [15] In 1694, the Illinois informed Tonti that during the preceding seven years they had killed and taken prisoners 334 men and boys and 111 women and girls. Margry, _op. cit._, iv, p. 5. [16] Hennepin, _A New Discovery_, etc., ii, p. 631; Margry, _op. cit._, ii, p. 98; _Jesuit Relations_, liv, p. 191; lix, p. 127. [17] Chappell, _A History of the Missouri River_, p. 25. [18] _Jesuit Relations_, xxx, p. 133. [19] French, _Historical Collections of Louisiana_, pt. i, p. 69. [20] Hazard, _Annals of Pennsylvania_, p. 7. [21] Discourse delivered before The New York Historical Association at the anniversary meeting, December 6, 1811, by the Honorable DeWitt Clinton; La Hontan, _New Voyages to North America_, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, ii, p. 504. [22] Margry, _op. cit._, ii, pp. 141, 272; iv, p. 5. [23] Hennepin, _op. cit._, ii, p. 659. [24] Margry, _op. cit._, i, p. 527; ii, p. 141. [25] _Jesuit Relations_, lxii, p. 67. [26] _Ibid._, lxi, p. 195. [27] Catesby, _The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands_, etc., ii, p. xiii; Hodge, _op. cit._, pt. i, p. 532. [28] Beverly, _The History of Virginia in Four Parts_, second edition, p. 179; Smith, _The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles_, in Arber’s edition of Captain John Smith’s Works, ii, p. 570. [29] _Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontanedo on the Country and Ancient Indian Tribes of Florida_, in French, _Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida_, series ii, p. 253.