Describes arriving at the fishing village of La Pointe, Wisconsin. Transcription: families who live here, two mails in a month, brought to the place by dog-sleighs and Indians. We took a look outside at the dank night, and mist enshrouded lake, & I got her [Bertha Livermore ?s] shawl and put it on. With her curls hooded by it she looked very pretty. Woudn ?t dance, when they commenced, and when I pressed her, acknowledged herself a ?ǣprofessor of religion. ? We chatted along right pleasantly, all the men knowing she was the prettiest girl in the boat, and after an hour and a half pleasantly s
Describes arriving at the fishing village of La Pointe, Wisconsin. Transcription: families who live here, two mails in a month, brought to the place by dog-sleighs and Indians. We took a look outside at the dank night, and mist enshrouded lake, & I got her [Bertha Livermore ?s] shawl and put it on. With her curls hooded by it she looked very pretty. Woudn ?t dance, when they commenced, and when I pressed her, acknowledged herself a ?ǣprofessor of religion. ? We chatted along right pleasantly, all the men knowing she was the prettiest girl in the boat, and after an hour and a half pleasantly spent, it ended. A talk with [George M.] Swan and his sister, then down below, where ?ǣFond du Lac ? Godefroi was playing Euchre, swearing loudly and talking Indian dialects. Talk with a Detroit man, hight Campo Campeau, about Michigan University. Bed by 11 1/2. 17. Wednesday. Rain and lightning all night to an extreme degree. Rising I found we were lying off La Pointe, having progressed some 8 miles in the Precedent ? man drifted out, being at work on the pier, rescued. A pretty large collection of huts, some few white folk and many Indians. Propeller Independence, fist boat launched on the lakes lying here ? 1846 The place as its name imports is situate on a long low-lying point stretching out into the Lake. We stop some time to wood &c. I find pretty girl with the curls and have a chat with her, her brother, and mother. Presently they are off in boat to visit a protestant church yard, some little distance off, ? the old lady would go, inasmuch as she had buried a daughter there. Swan and I ramble off to see the village. Tis merely a fishing place, has been of more importance as a rendevous of Voyageurs. Many Indians of both sexes about, and not a few half-breeds. And small lithe, long-black-haired urchins paddling in the water where canoes lay. The red men were poorly dressed, some in half civilized costume, Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 6, page 74, August 16
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