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Old Mackinaw, Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings
Old Mackinaw Or The Fortress of the Lakes and Its Surroundings Author:William Peter Strickland Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III Marquette's visit to Iroquois Point?Chapel and Fort?Old Mackinaw?The French Settlement in the Northwest?Erec tion of Chapel and Fort?The Gateway o... more »f Commerce -The Rendezvous of Traders, Trappers, Soldiers, Missionaries, and Indians?Description of Fort?Courriers des Bois? Expedition of Marquette and Joliet to Explore the Mississippi? Green Bay ? Fox River?Wisconsin ? Mississippi? Peoria Indians?Return Trip ?Kaskaskia Indians?St. Xa- vier Missions ? Mission to "the Illinois" ? Marquette's Health declines?Starts out 011 Return trip to Mackinaw? Dies and is Buried at mouth of Marquette River?Indians remove his Remains to Mackinaw?Funeral Cortege ?Ceremonies?Burial in the Chapel?Changes of time ?School- craft on the Place of Marquette's Burial?Missilimackinac ?Name of Jesuit Missions. In the year 1670, the devoted and self-sacrificing missionary, Jean Marquette, with a company of Indians of the Huron tribe, subsequently known as the Wyandots from the Georgian Bay, on the northeastern extremity of Lake Huron, entered for the first time the old Indian town on the northernside of the Mackinaw Straits. During the time he was planting his colony, and erecting his chapel at Iroquois Point, which he afterward designated St. Ignace, he resided on the Mackinaw Island. In 1671, he furnished an account of the island and its surroundings, which was published in " The Relations Des Jesuits" He says: " Missilimackinac is an island famous in these regions, of more than a league in diameter, and elevated in some places by such high cliffs as to be seen more than twelve leagues off. It is situated just in the strait forming the communication between Lakes Huron and Illinois (Michigan). It is the key, and, and as it were, the gate for all the tribes from the south, as the Saut, (St. ...« less