three feet in diameter. All the answers he gets from his familiar are during his Stay in this juggling house. Most Indians put an implicit belief on what the person in the jonglerie Says for he speaks in two different voices to deceive his hearers. The Crees were formerly a great and numerous nation; their language is spoken still by their descendants which is a Dialect of the Chipweay or saulteux; they extended formerly from Lake Ouinipigue by some called Cristineau or Killistinoe Lake as far North as Athabasca and a considerable way into the Plains by the River du Pas, assiniboine River, and Swan River; covering several hundred leagues of territory. But owing to their wars with their neighbours, the Small Pox in 1780/81 and other misfortunes the third of the nation does not now remain. Silver works and wampum are of no value in trading with them;

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