. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. er Indians or whitemen did the first wrong; but it is certain thatin many places they both did very many cruelthings. The Indians captured or killed the white 2o Stories of Pioneer Life. people in the most dreadful way. They soonbegan to think all white people were their ene-mies, as they came farther and farther into thecountry and drove the red men from their hunt-ing ground. Marquette. I. PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY. I am sure that all boys andgirls know what a missionaryis. You know that he goesto teach people about theBible, and how to live bet
. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. er Indians or whitemen did the first wrong; but it is certain thatin many places they both did very many cruelthings. The Indians captured or killed the white 2o Stories of Pioneer Life. people in the most dreadful way. They soonbegan to think all white people were their ene-mies, as they came farther and farther into thecountry and drove the red men from their hunt-ing ground. Marquette. I. PREPARING FOR THE JOURNEY. I am sure that all boys andgirls know what a missionaryis. You know that he goesto teach people about theBible, and how to live betterlives. You have often givenyour pennies to help senda missionary to some far-offcountry. You think of thosecountries as far away in an-other part of the world. Would it not seem strangeto think of missionaries com-ing to our own beautifulcountry ? Yet missionarieswere among the very firstwhite people to come into the middle part of theUnited States. Marquette was a good missionary, who left hispleasant home in France and came here over two. STATUE OF MARQUETTE. 11 Stories of Pioneer Life. hundred years ago. The white people had heardof a great river in this part of the country, anda man named Joliet was sent to find it. Mar-quette came with him to teach the Indians aboutGod. These two men chose five other Frenchmento come with them. They built two small canoes
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