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DATE OF THE DETROIT SETTLEMENT.
when near Port St. Joseph captured a body of English and Indians who were on their way to Mackinaw—thirty Englishmen being taken prisoners. Meanwhile, Tonty, having sent forward bis subordinate, De La Doret, by water, to communicate with the others, led his own forces across the country by land to Detroit, and sent up to Port St. Joseph for the rest to join him. In his report (which is not the spurious narrative afterwards published in his name) he says:
"After 200 leagues of journey by land we came, on the 19th of May, to Port Gratiot.
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