. Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech; . blera phis de terre.—Ferland II., 439. (Behold a nation humiliated tosuch an extent that it will no more trouble theearth.) Let us consider, a moment, the people ofwhom I am writing. The environments of theirbirthplaces were such as so-called civilization knows AND EARLIEST CHICAGO 19 nothing [of; their schooling was that of the chaseand war; their inherent ambitions were only thoseurging to greatness as warriors. How can we, ofthis generation, judge them fairly? Let us not bed
. Lost Maramech and earliest Chicago; a history of the Foxes and their downfall near the great village of Maramech; . blera phis de terre.—Ferland II., 439. (Behold a nation humiliated tosuch an extent that it will no more trouble theearth.) Let us consider, a moment, the people ofwhom I am writing. The environments of theirbirthplaces were such as so-called civilization knows AND EARLIEST CHICAGO 19 nothing [of; their schooling was that of the chaseand war; their inherent ambitions were only thoseurging to greatness as warriors. How can we, ofthis generation, judge them fairly? Let us not bedeceived by the terms applied to these beasts the explorers found along the St. Law-rence river were wild, and the French called themsanvage. The people they found living a life of wildfreedom they also called sanvage, although manywere so mild in manners as to put the French toshame. We have given the French word sauvage,that merely means wild, a most savage interpreta-tion. The European missionaries were not in positionto call these people savage, indiscriminately, in thepresent sense of the Site of the Great Village of Mara- mech and of the destruction of the larger part of the Fox tribe in 1730. Modeled in clay. CHAPTER II Call it idle curiosity that incites us unwrap thewinding-sheet of the mummy, if you will; say, if youplease, that it was curiosity merely that promptedme to dig into musty archives for information, writ-ten in a foreign language, with its incongruities oftwo hundred years ago. Be that as it may, it ishoped that some will scan these pages with thepleasure that the lover of history experiences. Where lettered man has lived and loved, hasfought and died; where romance and strife havebeen made indelible—there is history. Where let-ters are not known, tradition alone serves to per-petuate the current of events of a people—but, alas,in a manner so broken! On the broad prairies of northern Illinois andsouthern Wisconsin long lived a peopl
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