920 THE OJIBWAY NATION.

added, “with your war clubs—make a straight path to
the wigwam of the pale face, and demand the land of
the weeping Huron. I will sit upon the edge of this
rock, and await your return.”

The old man sat down, and the canoes moved East-
ward, in search of the foe. The Western shore of
Michigan was also thronged by the canoes of the Men-
omonies, Pottawatamies, Sacks and Foxes,—the South-
ern Hurons came with other tribes across the St. Clair,
and overran the South.

Tradition informs us that seven hundred canoes met
at Keweté.wahonning, one party of whom was to take
the route to Mahamooseebee, the second towards Wah-
weyagahmah, (now Lake Simcoe), the third was to
take the route towards the river St. Clair, and meet the
Southern Hurons. I will here remark that they had
several reasons for waging war against the Iroquois.—
First, for having broke the last treaty of peace by the
murder of some of their warriors ; second, to clear the
way of trade between the Ojibways and the French,
(the Iroquois then lived along the Ottawa river), and
third, to regain the land of the Western Hurons, and, if
possible, drive the Iroquois wholly from the peninsula.

The warriors who took the Mahamooseebee, had
several engagements with them, but outnumbering