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Title: A history of the United States, from the discovery of the American continent ..
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
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Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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of Michigan. For the succeeding years, the illustrious triumvirate,AUoiiez, Dablon, and Marquette, were employed inconfirming the influence of France in the vast regionsthat extend from Green Bay to the head of Lake Su-perior,—minghng happiness with suffering, and win-ning enduring glory by their fearless perseverance.For to what inclemencies, from nature and from man,was each missionary among the barbarians exposed !He defies the severity of climate, wading throughwater or through snows, without the comfort of fire;having no bread but pounded maize, and often no foodbut the unwholesome moss from the rocks; laboringincessantly; exposed to live, as it were, without nour-ishment, to sleep without a resting-place, to travelfar, and always incurring perils,—to carry his li(e inhis hand, or rather daily, and oftener than every day,to hold it up as a target, expecting captivity, deathfrom the tomahawk, tortures, fire. And yet the simplicity and the freedom of life in the wilderness had
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MISSIONARY LIFE. MARQUETTE. TALON. 153 their charms. The heart of the missionary would swell chap. . . XX. with delight, as, under a serene sky, and with a mild ^^v^-temperature, and breathing a pure air, he moved over f^llm. . 1 • • 1 /• • Charle- waters as transparent as the most limpid lountain. voix.iu.Every encampment offered his attendants the pleas-ures of the chase. Like a patriarch, he dwelt beneatha tent; and of the land through which he walked, hewas its master, in the length of it and in the breadthof it, profiting by its productions, without the embar-rassment of ownership. How often was the pillowof stones like that where Jacob felt the presence ofGod! How often did the ancient oak, of which thecenturies were untold, seem like the tree of Mamre,beneath which Abraham broke bread with angels!Each day gave the pilgrim a new site for his dwelling,which the industry of a few moments would erect, andfor which nature provided a floor of green inlaid withflowers. On ever

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