. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. BIRCH-BARK CANOES. of birch bark, into which they put plenty ofsmoked meat and Indian corn. Marquette had already been teaching the Ind-ians for two years, and had learned to speaktheir language. The Indians had tried to keephim from going away into unknown lands. Theysaid that the river was full of great monsters thatwould swallow his boats. They told him thatthe heat down the river was terrible, and that the Marquette. 23 Indians were unfriendly and would kill Marquette said that he was willing to losehis life for a chance to teach the I
. Stories of pioneer life, for young readers;. BIRCH-BARK CANOES. of birch bark, into which they put plenty ofsmoked meat and Indian corn. Marquette had already been teaching the Ind-ians for two years, and had learned to speaktheir language. The Indians had tried to keephim from going away into unknown lands. Theysaid that the river was full of great monsters thatwould swallow his boats. They told him thatthe heat down the river was terrible, and that the Marquette. 23 Indians were unfriendly and would kill Marquette said that he was willing to losehis life for a chance to teach the Indians. II. AMONG THE STRANGE INDIANS. Marquette and Joliet with their five friendsstarted out on Lake Michigan in their two little. ON LAKE MICHIGAN. boats. They went down into Green Bay, theninto the Fox River. From here they carriedtheir boats a mile and a half across the land tothe Wisconsin River. They sailed down this unknown stream to findthe great river of which they had heard. Atnight they camped on shore. They roasted theirmeat before the fire, and slept on skins andblankets. ^4 Stories of Pioneer Life. In about a month they were made happy bythe sight of a great river which they were suremust be the Mississippi that they had started tofind. Here they saw huge fish that made themthink of the monsters of which the Indians hadtold them. Now they began to fear savage Indians, sothey did not land at night, but slept in theirboats in the middle of the river, one man keep-ing watch while the rest slept. For two weeks they saw no Indians. Oneday they saw footprints in the sand and a pathleading from them. Joliet and Marquette fol-lowed the path till they found an Indian the Indians crowded out to se
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