Note [179 — Chapter III
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[179] Hodge, op. cit., pt. ii, p. 36; Monette, History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi, etc., i, p. 272, states the number as four hundred and twenty-seven. Lowry and McCardle, op. cit., p. 85, place the number as forty-five male Indians, and four hundred and fifty women and children.