(Beckwith in Fergus Hist. Series 27. )

Mr. Beckwith further says of them, **In the year
1684 at LaSalle's colony at Starved Rock, they had
populous villages and thirteen hundred warriors. . ..
At a later day, 1718, a village at Chicago, but being
afraid of the canoemen (the Pottawotbmies and Chippe-
was), left it.'*

Father Charlevoix, writing from this vicinity in
1721, says: "Fifty years ago the Miamis were settled on
the southern extremity of Lake Michigan, in a place called
Chicago, from the name of a small river that runs into
the lake."

History is replete with instances of their prowess
and their fearless disregard of the most savage tribes.
The Iroquois from the distant forests of New York, and
the Sioux from their far away western prairies, both, in
turn, fled in terror at the peal of the Miami war cry.
The rise and fall of both civilized and savage nations
has ever been a favorite theme with historical writers.
