ted Fort William. The view on Thunder-Bay is one of the grandest in
America. Thunder-Cap, with its sleeping stone-giant, looms up into the
heavens. Here _Ka-be-bon-ikka_--the Ojibway's god of storms--flaps his
huge wings and makes the Thunder. From this mountain he sends forth the
rain, the snow, the hail, the lightning and the tempest. A vast giant,
turned to stone by his magic, lies asleep at his feet. The island called
by the Ojibways the _Mak-i-nak_ (the turtle) from its tortoise-like
shape, lifts its huge form in the distance. Some "down-east Yankee"
called it "Pie-island," from its fancied resemblance to a pumpkin pie,
and the name, like all bad names, _sticks_. McKay's Mountain on the
mainland, a perpendicular rock more than a thousand feet high, upheaved
by the throes of some vast volcano, and numerous other bold and
precipitous headlands, and rock-built islands, around which roll the
sapphire-blue waters of the fathomless bay, present some of the most
magnificent views to be found on either continent.

[84] The Mission of the Holy Ghost--at La Pointe, on the isle
_Wauga-ba-me_--(winding view) in the beautiful bay of Cha-quam-egon
--was founded by the Jesuits about the year 1660. Father Rene Menard was
probably the first priest at this point. After he was lost in the
wilderness, Father Glaude Allouez permanently established the mission in
1665. The famous Father Marquette, who took Allouez's place, Sept. 13,
1669, writing to his superior, thus describes the Dakotas: "The
Nadouessi are the Iroquois of this country, beyond La Pointe, _but less
faithless, and never attack till attacked._ Their language is entirely
different from the Huron and Algonquin. They have many villages but are
widely scattered. They have very extraordinary customs. They principally
use the calumet. They do not speak at great feasts, and when a stranger
arrives give him to eat of a wooden fork, as we would a child. All the
lake tribes make war on them, but with small success. They have false
oats (wild rice,) use little canoes, _and keep their word strictly_."
_Neill's Hist. Minn._, p. III.

[85] _Michabo_ or _Manni-bozo_--the Good Spirit of the Algonkins. In
autumn, in the moon of the falling leaf, ere he composes himself to his
winter's sleep, he fills his great pipe and takes a god-like smoke. The
balmy clouds from his pipe float over the hills and woodland, filling
the air with the haze of "Indian Summer." _Brinton's Myths of the New
Wo