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Rh villages, and as it was the centre of all the nations of these countries, because fish are abundant there, which forms the principal subsistance of this people. We have erected there a small chapel of bark." Franquelin's Map of 1688 places a settlement near the southwestern extremity of the bay. There was no village on the island near the entrance.

Among the refugees from the Iroquois at this time at Chagouamigon Point were the Tionnontateheronnons, formerly called Hurons of the Tobacco Nation, the three bands of Ottawas, Ottawa Sinagos, and Kis-ka-kons. There also came to trade the Ousakis (Sauks) and Outagamis (Foxes), an allied people who spoke a difficult Algonquin