Michigan as a province, from its discovery and settlement by the French to its final surrender to the United States, by H. M. UtleyPublishing society of Michigan, 1906 |
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affairs American arms army arrival attack British brought Cadillac camp Canada canoes Captain capture Champlain CHAPTER chief Chippewas command at Detroit Company coureurs de bois Crown Point Detroit river early England English established expedition exploration Father force forest Fort Frontenac Fort Niagara France French Frenchmen friendly Frontenac fur trade garrison Gladwin governor granted hostile Hudson's Bay hundred Indians inhabitants interests Iroquois island Jesuit Jogues Joseph king known Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Ontario Lake Superior land later Lieutenant lish Lord Louis Marquette ment Michigan Michilimackinac military mission missionaries Mississippi Montcalm Montreal mouth natives never Niagara officers Ohio Ottawas party peace peltries Peyster Pontiac possession Pottawatomies prisoners Quebec Recollet Rogers Sabrevois Salle Sault Ste Marie savages sent settlement settlers shore of Lake Sieur Sir William Johnson soldiers strait supplies surrender thousand tion Tonty took treaty tribes troops village westward
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Σελίδα 353 - Port, Place, and Harbour within the same; leaving in all Fortifications the American Artillery that may be therein: And shall also order and cause all Archives, Records, Deeds and Papers belonging to any of the said States, or their Citizens...
Σελίδα 353 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
Σελίδα 49 - It happens frequently that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to promote their happiness by the gods who dwell beneath the water. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper wrapped with their most precious articles.
Σελίδα 99 - Such of them as are married have the wisdom to retire to their own houses ; but the bachelors act just as an East Indiaman and pirates are wont to do ; for they lavish, eat, drink, and play all away as long as the goods hold out ; and when these are gone, they even sell their embroidery, their lace, and their clothes. This done they are forced upon a new voyage for subsistence...
Σελίδα 268 - ... for our wintering ground. Neither will they let us have them on credit, as our brothers the French used to do. When I visit the English chief, and inform him of the death of any of our comrades, instead of lamenting, as our brothers the French used to do, they make game of us. If I ask him for anything for our sick, he refuses, and tells us he does not want us, from which it is apparent he seeks our death. We must therefore, in return, destroy them without delay ; there is nothing to prevent...
Σελίδα 152 - Monsieur de Beauport, Monsieur de Beauport, Monsieur de Beauport, I bring you the faith and homage which I am bound to bring you on account of my fief Du Buisson, which I hold as a man of faith of your seigniory of Beauport, declaring that I offer to pay my seigniorial and feudal dues in their season, and demanding of you to accept me in faith and homage as aforesaid."1 The following instance is the more common one of a seignior holding directly of the Crown.
Σελίδα 93 - ... and their political relations among themselves and with other tribes are duly preserved. Have they, then, no passions to excite them to deeds of violence, or have they discovered, and reduced to practice, some unknown principle of action in human nature equally efficacious with the two great motives of hope and fear, upon which all other governments have heretofore rested...
Σελίδα 92 - ... of their women with a clamshell or the scapula of a buffalo, devouring it with savage improvidence, and subsisting during the remainder of the year upon the precarious supplies furnished by the chase and by fishing. They were thinly scattered over an immense extent of country, fixing their summer residence upon some little spot of fertile land, and roaming with their families and their mat or skin houses, during the winter, through the forests...
Σελίδα 215 - I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet I escaped unhurt, though death was leveling my companions on every side.
Σελίδα 77 - The houses are arranged along the shore of this great Lake Huron, and fish and smoked meat constitute the principal food of the inhabitants, so that a drink of brandy, after the repast, seems necessary to cook the bilious meats, and the crudities which they leave in the stomach. The air is penetrating and corrosive, and without the brandy that they use in the morning, sickness would be much more frequent.