What to see in America . ty with two companions in a canoe along the eastcoast of Lake Michigan, INIarquette died at the age of thirty-eight, and was buried beside an obscure creek a short distancesouth of Luddington and of the promontory called theSleeping Bear. One year later a party of Ottawas opened thegrave, washed and dried the bones, and placed them in abox of birch bark. Then, in a procession of thirty canoes,singing their funeral songs, they paddled to St. Ignace,where the relics of the beloved missionary, who had brighthair like the sun, were buried beneath the floor of the littlecha
What to see in America . ty with two companions in a canoe along the eastcoast of Lake Michigan, INIarquette died at the age of thirty-eight, and was buried beside an obscure creek a short distancesouth of Luddington and of the promontory called theSleeping Bear. One year later a party of Ottawas opened thegrave, washed and dried the bones, and placed them in abox of birch bark. Then, in a procession of thirty canoes,singing their funeral songs, they paddled to St. Ignace,where the relics of the beloved missionary, who had brighthair like the sun, were buried beneath the floor of the littlechapel of the mission. At Mackinaw City, in 1763, occurred one of the most dismalof Indian massacres, which is fascinatingly described inParkmans The Conspiracy of Pontiac. The Britishcaptured Mackinac Islandat the outbreak of theWar of 1812, and theAmericans made an un-successful attempt torecover it in 1814. Itfinally passed into thekeeping of the UnitedStates the next year, and then followed the great Arch Rock, Mackinac. 250 What to See in America days when this was the chief center of trade and activity forJohn Jacob Astors American Fur Company. The story of *Hiawatha, which is a romance of theOjibways, is given each year by these Indians near Petoskeyon the shore of Lake Michigan, about forty miles south of the Straits. Theplay is renderedwith great skilland charm onevery pleasantday through themonth of Huron,east of theStraits, is themost irregular ofthe Great Lakes,and among its attractions are no less than three thousandislands. Michigans chief city, and the oldest in the southern partof the state, is Detroit, founded by the French in 170L Itfell into British hands in 1763 along with the rest of theterritory occupied by France in North America. Laterthat same yesiv it was besieged by the celebrated chief Pon-tiac, who, in ten weeks time, captured every British postwest of Niagara except this. After the siege had lastedabout three months reenforcements reached
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