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totem—-coat of arms—which now forms the totem of the
villagers, excepting those who have since come amongst
us from other villages by intermarriage, for there was a
law that no one was to marry one of the same totem, for
all considered each other as being related. He must
have been a daring adventurer—a warrz'0r—for no one
would have ventured to go and settle down on the land
from which they had just driven the Hurons, whom the
Ojebwas conquered and reduced, unless he was a great

hero. It is said that he lived about the islands of Rice _;

Lake, secreting himself from the enemy for several years,
until some others came and joined him, when they
formed a settlement on one of the islands. He must
have been a great hunter, for this was one of the princi-
pal inducements that made him venture there, for there
must have been abundance of game of every kind
The Ojebwas are called, here and all around, Massis-
suagays, because they came from Me-sey Sah-gieng, at
the head of Lake Huron, as you go up to Sault St. Marie
falls.

Here he lived in jeopardy—with his life in his hand-—
enduring the unpleasant idea that he lived in the land
of bones—amids«t the gloom, which shrouded the once
happy and populous village of the Hurons; here their
bones lay broad-cast around his Wigwam; where,
among these woods once rang the war cry of the Hu-
rons, echoing along the valley of the river Trent, but

whose sinewed arms now laid low, with their badges
and arms of war, in one common grave, near the resi-
dence of Peter Anderson, Esq. Their graves, forming
a hillock, are now all that remain of this once powerful