¦.:¦•-".¦¦¦ : ¦¦"-"'¦¦ ;¦¦ ¦ ~ ..... • - - - one] SAVAGE ALLIES OF NEW FRANCE 295 while making that journey, by a tempest which arose. Their enemies were moved by this disaster, and said that the gods ought to be satisfied with so many punishments ; so they ceased making war on those who remained. All these scourges, which ought to have gone home to their consciences, seemed only to increase their iniquities. All savages who have not yet embraced the Christian faith have the notion that the souls of the departed, especially of those who have been slain, can not rest in peace unless their relatives avenge their death; it is necessary, therefore, to sacrifice victims to their shades, if their friends wish to solace them. This belief, which animated those barbarians, inspired in them an ardent desire to satisfy the manes of their ancestors, or to perish utterly; but, seeing that this was impossible for them, they were obliged to check their resentment— they felt too humiliated in the sight of all the nations to dare undertake any such enterprise. The despair, the cruel memory of their losses, and the destitution to which they were reduced, made it still more difficult for them to find favorable opportunities for providing their subsistence; the frequent raids of their enemies had even dispersed the game; and famine was the last scourge that attacked them. Then the Islinois,203 touched with compassion for cations of the British Folk-lore Society. To that society Miss Owen presented a large and valuable collection made by her, of beadwork and ceremonial implements obtained from the Foxes; the book is illustrated with plates (some being colored facsimiles) showing the designs in their beadwork. — Ed. 203 Illinois (the French form of their own appellation, Iliniwek, meaning "people who are men") was the name of a "confederacy of Algonquian tribes, formerly occupying southern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and sections of Iowa and Missouri, comprising the Cahpkia, Kaskaskia, Michigamea, Moingwena, Peoria, and Tamaroa." From 1660 to 1670, Jesuit missionaries found some of them living at the Mascoutin village on the upper Fox River, and even visiting the Indians at Lake Superior for purposes of trade. Some of their villages were situated in Iowa on the shore of the Mississippi; but the greater ; '