Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . omentarily expected to share their fate. The sum-mer wore on and the cold of winter made his suffer-ings even more intense. Famishing from hunger andscantily clad he was made a slave to do the menialwork of the camp. He was held In captivity In thisfashion for more than a year when he finally escaped, go*-ing on board a Dutch vessel on the Hudson. The In-dians were furious when they discovered his escape, andto pacify them the Dutch paid a large ransom. He after-ward returned to France and presented him
Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . omentarily expected to share their fate. The sum-mer wore on and the cold of winter made his suffer-ings even more intense. Famishing from hunger andscantily clad he was made a slave to do the menialwork of the camp. He was held In captivity In thisfashion for more than a year when he finally escaped, go*-ing on board a Dutch vessel on the Hudson. The In-dians were furious when they discovered his escape, andto pacify them the Dutch paid a large ransom. He after-ward returned to France and presented himself to hissuperior, greatly to the astonishment of the latter whosupposed him dead. The pope by special dispensationgave him the right to say mass in spite of the defor-mities of body inflicted by the teeth and knives of thesavages.* Jogues companion, Raymbault, remained at Sault SteMarie where the mission was continued with more orless success until his death in 1642. Afterward it wasabandoned for a time until It was again revived by ?Parkman. Jesuits in North America. Boston, JAMES MARQUETTE MICHIGAN AS A PROVINCE 77 Allouez in 1666. Hither came also Dablon and Mar-quette. The latter established the mission at St, Ignace,which was some years afterward transferred to thesouth side of the strait near the locality now known asMackinaw City. Marest and de Carheil were stationedhere, but the mission was finally abandoned by theJesuits in 1707. The government placed military commandants atSault Ste Marie and Michilimackinac. The fur tradecarried on at these posts brought to them a great num-ber of traders, as well as supernumeraries and presence of an armed force was necessary to pre-serve order and to hold the natives in subjection. In1694 de la Motte Cadillac was appointed to the com-mand at Michilimackinac, and he had supervision overall the surrounding country. Writing from here to thegovernor-general under date of August 3, 1695,he says: This village is one
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