The Early History of Michigan, from the First Settlement to 1815A. S. Barnes & Company, 1856 - 409 Seiten |
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... furs found -Other proofs of their guilt - Cause of Cadillac's arrest CHAPTER VIII . 142 M. Cadillac's defense continued - Count Pontchartrain investigates the conduct of Cadillac's accusers - Questions Cadillac concerning the price and ...
... furs found -Other proofs of their guilt - Cause of Cadillac's arrest CHAPTER VIII . 142 M. Cadillac's defense continued - Count Pontchartrain investigates the conduct of Cadillac's accusers - Questions Cadillac concerning the price and ...
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... furs sell better with the English , and that they can obtain goods at a lower price , yet they make all their trade with us . There are many reasons for this . One is , that each sav- age , one with another , kills , per year , only ...
... furs sell better with the English , and that they can obtain goods at a lower price , yet they make all their trade with us . There are many reasons for this . One is , that each sav- age , one with another , kills , per year , only ...
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... Furs . expense of his journey . Another reason is , that in fre- quenting the French he receives many caresses ; they are too cunning to allow his furs to escape , especially when they succeed in making him eat and drink with them ...
... Furs . expense of his journey . Another reason is , that in fre- quenting the French he receives many caresses ; they are too cunning to allow his furs to escape , especially when they succeed in making him eat and drink with them ...
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... furs . It is abso- lutely necessary to establish this post . " If the king approves this project , I will give you two hundred chosen men , of different trades , with six companies of soldiers , in order that the place may be in ...
... furs . It is abso- lutely necessary to establish this post . " If the king approves this project , I will give you two hundred chosen men , of different trades , with six companies of soldiers , in order that the place may be in ...
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... the governor - general and intend- ant , in consequence of the express orders which they have this year received from the king , do , by these pres- Exclusive traffic in Furs ceded to the Company - Radisson 94 EARLY HISTORY OF MICHIGAN .
... the governor - general and intend- ant , in consequence of the express orders which they have this year received from the king , do , by these pres- Exclusive traffic in Furs ceded to the Company - Radisson 94 EARLY HISTORY OF MICHIGAN .
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Seite 36 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Seite 41 - Salle, who had brought him thither to make him perish in a nasty lake, and lose the glory he had acquired by his long and happy navigations on the ocean.
Seite 329 - Fort Michilimackinac was built by order of the governor-general of Canada, and garrisoned with a small number of militia, who, having families, soon became less soldiers than settlers. Most of those whom I found in the fort had originally served in the French army. The fort stands on the south side of the strait which is between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan.
Seite 36 - Mackinaw, he entered a little river in Michigan. Erecting an altar, he said mass after the rites of the Catholic Church ; then, begging the men who conducted his canoe to leave him alone for half an hour < in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Seite 340 - ... woodlands, brooks, and fountains, were so mingled together that nothing was left to desire. The climate was mild, and the air salubrious. Good land abounded, yielding maize, wheat, and every vegetable. The forests were a natural park, stocked with buffaloes, deer, quails, partridges, and wild turkeys.
Seite 341 - The French dwelt on farms which were about three or four acres wide on the river, and eighty acres deep ; indolent in the midst of plenty, graziers as well as tillers of the soil, and enriched by Indian traffic. " The English fort, of which...
Seite 341 - This lovely and cheerful region attracted settlers, alike white men and savages; and the French had so occupied the two banks of the river, that their numbers were rated even so high as twenty-five hundred souls, of whom were five hundred men able to bear arms ; three or four hundred French families.
Seite 44 - Albanet informed me that the French at the Saut, being only twelve in number, had not arrested him, believing themselves too weak to contend with such numbers, especially as the Sauteurs had declared that they would not allow the French to redden the land of their fathers with the blood of their brothers. " On receiving this information, I immediately resolved to take with me six Frenchmen, and embark at the dawn of the next day for the Saut Ste.
Seite 395 - Should the force under your command be equal to the enterprise, consistent with the safety of your own post, you will take possession of Maiden, and extend your conquests as circumstances may justify.
Seite 54 - Fathers if they wished to baptize the prisoners, which they did. " An hour after, I put myself at the head of forty-two Frenchmen, and, in sight of more than four hundred savages, and within two hundred paces of their fort, I caused the two murderers to be shot. The impossibility of keeping them until spring made me hasten their death.