... Montreal to the Mississippi, winteringwith the Indians, and returning with a load of furs and peltries in the succeeding season, including the cost of provisions and portages and the hire of five ... among the Hurons, and since then to Missilimakinak, where they sold theirgoods to the savages of the places, who in turn went to exchange them with other savages in the depths of the woods, lands ... gathered there under the influence of trade. But soon, whether by design of the French and their allies or otherwise, hostilities brokeout against the Foxes and their allies. The animus of the...