ly
full-grown. They pitched their encampment anew, and had abundance of
animal food in this new position.

"My reputation was established by this success, and I was afterward
noted in the tribe, in the art of a medicine-woman, and sung the songs
which I have given to you."

CHAPTER III.

Marquette's visit to Iroquois Point -- Chapel and Fort -- Old
Mackinaw -- The French Settlement in the Northwest --
Erection of Chapel and Fort -- The Gateway of 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.
Xavier Missions -- Mission to "the Illinois" -- Marquette's
Health declines -- Starts out on 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 --
Schoolcraft 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 northern side 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. Marie) is for those of the
north, there being in this section of country only those two passages
by water, for a great number of nations have to go by one or other of
these channels, in order to reach the French settlements.

"This presents