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ace, but less conversant with some of the artsof first necessity than any of their neighbors.They have no villages, and their lodges areso rudely fashioned as to afford them butvery inadequate protection against inclementskies. The greater part of their year is spentin traveling from place to place in search offood. The animal on which they chiefly dependis the hare. This they take in springes. Ofthe skin they make coverings with much ingenuity,cutting it into narrow strips, and weavingthese into a cloth of the shape of a blanket, andof a quality very warm and agreeable.The pleasant situation of the fort, and stillmore the desire of learning the Chipewalanguage, led me to resolve on wintering in it.In the family of M. Cadotte no other languagethan the Chipewa was spoken.During the summer the weather was sometimesexceedingly hot. Mosquitoes and blackflies were so numerous as to be a heavy counterpoiseto the pleasure of hunting. Pigeons werein great plenty; the stream supplied our drink;and sickness was unknown.In the course of the season a small detachmentof troops under the command of LieutenantJemette tt arrived to garrison the fort.43This was Ensign John Jamet of the Sixtieth Regiment,who came to Mackinac with Captain Etheringtonin the autumn of 1760. He was the first victim ofthe massacre when Mackinac was taken by the Chippewain June, 1763. Editor.62