Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . WILL-IAM PENNS A JESUIT MISSIONARY, CHAPTER IN THE NORTHWEST. To Jes-u-it missionaries is due the credit of leading the march ofcivilization in the West. About thirty years after the settlement of Que-becin 1608, the Fathers Shau-mo-not and Bre-boeuf traversed the great lakes,sailing along the northern shore of O-hi-o by way of Lake Erie and skirt-ing the western shores of Lake Hur-on as far as the straits of Mack-i-nac. Inthe summer of 1660, Fath
Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . WILL-IAM PENNS A JESUIT MISSIONARY, CHAPTER IN THE NORTHWEST. To Jes-u-it missionaries is due the credit of leading the march ofcivilization in the West. About thirty years after the settlement of Que-becin 1608, the Fathers Shau-mo-not and Bre-boeuf traversed the great lakes,sailing along the northern shore of O-hi-o by way of Lake Erie and skirt-ing the western shores of Lake Hur-on as far as the straits of Mack-i-nac. Inthe summer of 1660, Father Mes-nard founded a mission on a point on thesouthern shore of Lake Su-pe-ri-or called Shag-wam-e-gan. He lost his life insome strange way and in 1665 Father All-ou-ez took up the mission, andpreached in the In-di-an language to the various tribes. In 1669 FatherA-Ion-ey and another priest went as far as the Fox river. In 1671 Jean Ta-lon, who had been appointed the over-seer of Can-a-da,by the French Government, called a council of In-di-ans at the foot of lakeSu-pe-ri-or. The chiefs of the different tribes promised to be true and friendly
Size: 1397px × 1788px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherchica, bookyear1898
