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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
Dreuillettes brutally abandoned. Another company of Ottawas and other Algonquins appeared in Quebec in 1660 and asked a missionary.
Missions had now received a fresh impulse from the pious Lalle, the first bishop of Quebec, who came out in 1669. Father Mesnard was selected as the first ambassador of the cause on the shores of Gitchie Gumee, the big sea water. The choice was a fit one. He had been a compeer of those noble men who had enriched Huronia with their blood, and
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