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antiThe next morning I crossed the Strait ofSte. Marie, or of Lake Superior, to a pointwhich the Chippewa call the Grave of theIroquois. 4 To this name there belongs atradition that the Iroquois, who at a certaintime made war upon the Chippewa, with thedesign of dispossessing them of their country,encamped one night a thousand strong uponthis point; where, thinking themselves securefrom their numbers, they indulged in feastingon the bodies of their prisoners. The sight,however, of the sufferings and humiliation oftheir kindred and friends so wrought uponthe Chippewa, who beheld them from theopposite shore, that with the largest numberof warriors they could collect, but whichamounted only to three hundred, they crossedthe channel and at break of day fell upon theIroquois, now sleeping after their excesses, andput one and all to death. Of their own party,they lost but a single man; and he died of ain the history of the Northwest Duluth, Le Sueur,La Ronde, Henry, the Cadottes, the Warren brothers,and others. For the early history of the place seeThwaites, "Story of Chequamegon Bay" in Wis.Hist. Colls., XIII, 397-425. Editor.4Iroquois Point is in modem Chippewa County,Michigan. Nearby is the village of Iroquois. Thetragedy which gave their names to point and villageoccurred in 1662. A detailed narrative of the affairby Perrot is in Emma H. Blair's Indian Tribes of theUpper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes(Cleveland, 1911), I, 178-80. Editor.