. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . gewhere he received the utmost kindness. A day or two afterwards, fearing an attack ofretaliation by the English, the whole body ofIndians moved from the fort over to our island asa place of greater safety. They landed, three hun-dred and fifty fighting men. Wawatam was amongthem, with Henry in safe keeping. Several dayshad passed, when two large canoes from Montreal,with English goods aboard, were seized by theIndians. The invoice of goods contained amongother things, a large stock of liquor, and soon maddrunkenness prevailed. The watchf
. Early Mackinac. A sketch historical and descriptive . gewhere he received the utmost kindness. A day or two afterwards, fearing an attack ofretaliation by the English, the whole body ofIndians moved from the fort over to our island asa place of greater safety. They landed, three hun-dred and fifty fighting men. Wawatam was amongthem, with Henry in safe keeping. Several dayshad passed, when two large canoes from Montreal,with English goods aboard, were seized by theIndians. The invoice of goods contained amongother things, a large stock of liquor, and soon maddrunkenness prevailed. The watchful and faithfulWawatam told Henry he feared he could not pro-tect him when the Indians were in liquor, andbesides, as he frankly confessed, he could not ALEXANDER HENRY. 31 himself resist the temptation of joining his com-rades in the debauch. He therefore took him upthe hill and back in the woods, and hid him in acave, where he was to remain hidden until theliquor should be drank. After an uncomfortableand unrestful night, Henry discovered next morn-. ALEXANDER HENRY. ing, to his horror, that he had been lying on a heapof human bones and skulls. This charnel-houseretreat is now the well-known Skull Cave of theIsland, one of the regular stopping places of thetourists carriages. But we cannot follow trader Henrys fortunesfarther. In a relation between guest and prisoner, 6-2 EAKLY MACKINAC. and generally treated with respect, moving withthe band from one place to another, following theoccupation of a hunter, and taking up with Indianlife and almost fascinated by it, he at length findshimself at the Sault, where soon an opportunityopened for his deliverance and his return he made another trip to the countryof the upper lakes and remained for a longer his good friend Wawatam, it is a sad traditionthat he afterwards became blind and was accidental-ly burned in his lodge on the island at the Point,formerly known as Ottawa Point, in the village,then as Biddl
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