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Genre/Form: | Travel literature Journals (Notebooks) Early works History Early works to 1800 |
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Material Type: | Manuscript |
Document Type: | Book, Archival Material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac; D---D.; M Chasles; Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library); Newberry Library. |
OCLC Number: | 45369747 |
Language Note: | In French. |
Notes: | Ms. title in red and black, within ruled borders. Last two leaves are blank. Contemporary leather over boards; raised bands on spine. Illustrated bookplate of French mathematician and book collector Michel Chasles. Published in Découvertes et etablissements / Pierre Margry. Paris : Imprimerie D. Jouaust, 1883, v. 5, p. 75-132. Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library). |
Description: | 60 unnumbered leaves, bound ; 16 cm |
Responsibility: | par D ... D. |
Abstract:
In the first chapter on Michilimackinac, Cadillac describes the geography of the Great Lakes, the way the Indians build their homes, cook their food, trap beaver and fish, and the practices of the voyageurs or fur traders. He continues by discussing the physical make-up of the Indians, how they engage in warfare and torture their captives, their own indifference to pain, their rituals of courtship, marriage, and death; and the practices of their medicine men. Chapt. 4 contains Cadillac's arguments in support of his theory that the Indians are descended from the Hebrews, and are the original Jews. Finally, he describes, tribe by tribe, the Indians south of Michilimackinac, including the Outaouas, Hurons, Pouteouatamis, Noquets, Sakis, Puans, Outagamis, Miamis of Chicagou, and Sioux. In the last chapter, Cadillac marvels at the rivers which join the Mississippi, and lead south, and west, possibly to the Pacific Ocean, and also describes the beauty of the land inhabited by the Illinois.
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