This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...he started to the field of his labors. Four hundred savages, who had come down from the upper lakes to barter their furs, were returning to their homes; and the sturdy missionary was pleased to make the greater part of the journey with them. How wonderful had been the change in the life and customs of the Indian ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...he started to the field of his labors. Four hundred savages, who had come down from the upper lakes to barter their furs, were returning to their homes; and the sturdy missionary was pleased to make the greater part of the journey with them. How wonderful had been the change in the life and customs of the Indian nations since the coming of the French traders into the valley of the St. Lawrence! Formerly each tribe had dwelt in its own place in the forest, its men seldom venturing far from their own clearings and villages. They were contented with their little belongings, and their knowledge of the world was limited by the horizon. But when the traders came, and the red men learned that for a few furs they could purchase wonderful articles, both useful and beautiful, a new epoch began for them, and their ways of life were altered. Their hunters and trappers traversed the forests far and near in quest of fur-bearing animals. They became acquainted with distant tribes, and were easily persuaded to change their places of habitation; and they undertook long and perilous journeys to dispose of the peltries which they had gathered, and to see the ways of the white men. Thus it had happened that the savages of the upper lakes, who had so lately been unknown, had felt the charm of the traders' presence and had come out of their solitudes to have intercourse with the superior race--an intercourse which in the end would be their destruction. It was early in September when Allouez reached the Sault Sainte Marie, and there he parted from his savage escort. The Ojibways, or Chippewas, welcomed him to their village at the foot of the rapids, and with them he would gladly have tarried; but duty required him to go forward to a more distant field. With only a few companions ...
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