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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.

The journey was replete with difficulties, hardships and dangers, reaching for three hundred leagues through dense forests. The rivers were full of rocks and waterfalls, and the missionaries were compelled to ply the paddle, draw, the canoe over rapids, and carry heavy burdens over roughest portages. Pood was scarce and the Indians unfriendly, but after severe toil and intense suffenng,, the sacred envoys, Brebeuf and Daniel, reached the heart of the
 
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