Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . ,#^^. ..r^ IIURSHOR HILL, EAST SIDE OF PEORIA LAI\;E. KICKAIOO TIOAn SCENE—OLD L(l(; HUT ;1hk?^^ \ HISTORY OF PEORIA COUNTY 9 polygamy, made slaves of their squaws, refusing to work themselves, torturedtheir captives, offered human sacrifices to their pagan gods and fought neigh-boring tribes to extermination. THE PEORIAS We are now ready to be introduced to the Peorias and as it is the first timethat we have met them and as Marquette is our only mutual friend, we willpermit him to introduce us i
Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . ,#^^. ..r^ IIURSHOR HILL, EAST SIDE OF PEORIA LAI\;E. KICKAIOO TIOAn SCENE—OLD L(l(; HUT ;1hk?^^ \ HISTORY OF PEORIA COUNTY 9 polygamy, made slaves of their squaws, refusing to work themselves, torturedtheir captives, offered human sacrifices to their pagan gods and fought neigh-boring tribes to extermination. THE PEORIAS We are now ready to be introduced to the Peorias and as it is the first timethat we have met them and as Marquette is our only mutual friend, we willpermit him to introduce us in his own way. The time is the 25th of June, 1673; the place, the western bank of theMississippi, between and Fort Madison at the mouth of the DesMoines. Marquettes introduction is somewhat long but very interesting and he givesus a pretty good description of their manner of life and their hospitality. Al-though neither he nor Joliet had ever met this tribe, each party had learnedsomething of the other through the traders and Marquette and Joliet under-stood to some extent the languages of the Indians in this part of the
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