Betty B.
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Forty two degrees to thirty four degrees, and preach the gospel to the utmost of my power to the nations we visited.
We then ascended the Mississippi with great difficulty against the current, and left it in the latitude of thirty eight degrees north to enter another river, Illinois, which took us to the lake of the Illinois, Michigan, which is a much shorter way than through the river Mesconsin, Wisconsin, by which we entered the Mississippi.
End of section twenty eight
Section twenty nine of Great Epics in American History Volume one This is a Libravox recording.
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Great Epics in American History Volume one Voyages of Discovery and Early Explorations one thousand AD to sixteen eighty two by Francis Whiting Halsey.
Section twenty nine The Death of Marquette sixteen seventy five by Father Claude Dablanc
Father James Marquette, having promised the Illinois called Kaskaskia, to return among them to teach them our mysteries, had great difficulty in keeping his word.
The great hardships of his first voyage had brought on a dysentery, and it so enfeebled him that he lost all hope of undertaking a second voyage.
Yet his malady having given way and almost ceased toward the close of the summer in the following year, he obtained permission of his superiors to return to the Illinois to found that noble mission.
After the Illinois had taken leave of the father, filled with a great idea of the gospel, he continued his voyage and soon after reached the Illinois Lake.
Eastern side of the lake.
having gone thither by the northern western, his strength, however, failed so much that his men despaired of being able to carry him alive to their journey's end.
For in fact, he became so weak and exhausted that he could no longer help himself, nor even stir, and had to be handled and carried like a child.
The eve of his death, which was a Friday, he told them, all radiant with joy, that it would take place on the morrow.
During the whole day he conversed with them about the manner of his burial, the way in which he should be laid out, the place to be selected for his internment.
He told them how to arrange his hands, feet, and face, and directed them to raise a cross over his grave.
He even went so far as to enjoin them, only three hours before he expired, to take his chapel bell as soon as he was dead and ring it while they carried him to the grave.
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