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EARLY JESUITS OF MICHIGAN.
thither. I must go if it cost me my life. " He started, and, at a portage, while his only attendant was getting the canoe over, on the tenth of August, 1661, he wandered into the forest and was never more seen. Whether he took a wrong path and was lost in the wood, or whether some straggling Indian struck him down, was never known.
Thus ended the life of Father Mesnard, the first Christian
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