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ney from St. Michel, and has fully 40 Villages,
inhabited by the Nadouechiouek and Mantouek.
" The ninth, situated beyond the Nadouechiouek,
thirty-five leagues or thereabout from lake Alimibeg,
is called the Nation of the Assinipoualak, or *
War-
riors of the rock.'
" The tenth Nation is that of the Kilistinons, who
comprise four Nations or tribes. Those of the first
are called the Alimibegouek Kilistinons; of the
second, the Kilistinons of Ataouabouscatouek Bay; of
the third, the Kilistinons of the Nipisiriniens, because
the Nipisiriniens discovered their country, whither
they resort to trade or barter goods. They [82] com-
prise only about six hundred men, that is, two thousand
five hundred souls, and are not very stationary.
They are of a very approachable disposition.
" The people of the fourth tribe are called Nisi-
bourounik Kilistinons.
** The fourteenth Nation has thirty Villages, in-
and is six or
habited by the Atsistagherronnons,
seven days' journey Southwest by South from St.
Michel. The Onnontagueronnons have recently
declared war against them." ^^
The Father speaks also of learning from a Nipisirinien
Captain that he had seen at one place two
thousand Algonquins tilling the soil; and that the
other Villages of the same country were still more
populous. This Captain asserted that toward the
South and Southeast there were more than thirty
Nations, all stationary, all speaking the Abnaquiois
tongue, and all more populous than were the Hurons
of old, who numbered as many as thirty or thirtyfive
thousand souls within the limits of seventeen
leagues.