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Early Detroit
expedition, and by his intrigues on the route, sought to defeat it, and persuade the men to return. De la Motte detected the plot, and made a frank, manly and characteristic speech to the company and they remained true to their purpose.
I am not aware that there is any evidence that when De La Motte landed there were any Indian villages upon the banks of our beautiful river. On the contrary, he speaks of it as an abandoned country, long in the possession of the Iroquois and the wolves, as their natural hunting ground.
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