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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
sharp rocks, to drag the canoe up the foaming rapids, and at portages to carry heavy burdens. He is subjected to every form of drudgery, to every phase of insult and contempt. Want, absolute and terrible, comes in to enhance the horrors of the voyage. Berries and edible moss are exhausted, and the moose skin of their dresses is made to yield its scanty and disgusting nutriment. Finally, with his breviary contemptuously cast into the water, bare-foot,
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