"In fact, beside the fish common to all the other tribes, as the herring, carp, pike, gold-fish, white-fish and sturgeon, there are found three varieties of the trout--one common; the second of a larger size, three feet long and one foot thick; the third monstrous, for we cannot otherwise describe it--it being so fat that the Indians, who have a peculiar relish for fats, can scarcely eat it. Besides, the supply is such that a single Indian will take forty or fifty of them through the ice, with a single spear, in three hours. "It is this attraction which has heretofore drawn to a point so advantageous, the greater part of the savages, in this country driven away by fear of the Iroquois. The three tribes at present living on the _Baye des Puans_ (Green Bay) as strangers, formerly dwelt on the main land near the middle of this island--some on the borders of Lake Illinois, others on the borders of Lake Huron. A part of them, called _Sauteurs_, had their abode on the main land at the West, and the others look upon this place as their country for passing the winter, when there are no fish at the _Saut_. The Hurons, called _Etonontathronnons_, have lived for some years in the same island, to escape the Iroquois. Four villages of Ottawas had also their abode in this quarter. "It is worthy of notice that those who bore the name of the island, and called themselves Missilimackinac, were so numerous, that some of the survivors yet living here assure us that they once had thirty villages, all inclosed in a fortification of a league and a half in circuit, when the Iroquois came and defeated them, inflated by a victory they had gained over three thousand men of that nation, who had carried their hostilities as far as the country of the _Agnichronnons_. "In one word, the quantity of fish, united with the excellence of the soil for Indian corn, has always been a powerful attraction to the tribes in these regions, of which the greater part subsist only on fish, but some on Indian corn. On this account many of these same tribes, perceiving that the peace is likely to be established with the Iroquois, have turned their attention to this point so convenient for a return to their own country, and will follow the examples of those who have made a beginning on the islands of Lake Huron, which by this means will soon be peopled from one end to the other, an event highly desirable to facilitate the instruction of the Indian race, whom it would not be necessary to seek by journeys of two or three hundred leagues on these great lakes, with inconceivable danger and hardships.