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There, above Peoria Lake, another Illinois town of seventy-four lodges was found, and these Kaskaskias so clung to the Blackrobe that he promised to come back and teach them. From the head waters of the Illinois a portage was made to Lake Michigan, and the French returned to the Bay of the Puans alongshore.
They had gold rims, and he told me that a man with those spectacles could read any kind of a book. He thought I was a greenhorn," said the scout. "Where did you learn to read?" "A Blackrobe taught me." Bucks held out the book. "Then read this, Bob, sure." Scott looked at the worn volume, but shook his head doubtfully. "Looks like a pretty big book for me.
Not far off was the little log church, where one good Father Beret, or as named by the Indians, who all loved him, Father Blackrobe, performed the services of his sacred calling; and scattered all around were the cabins of traders, soldiers and woodsmen forming a queer little town, the like of which cannot now be seen anywhere on the earth.
Marquette stood up and spoke to the Indians in Huron. They made no answer. He held up the white calumet. Then they began to beckon, and when the party drew to land, they made it clear that they had themselves been frightened until they saw the Blackrobe holding the calumet.
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