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Updated: May 29, 2025
Now the sun shone forth on woody islands, Bois Blanc and Mackinaw and the distant Manitoulins, on the forest wastes of Michigan and the vast blue bosom of the angry lake; and now her port was won, and she found her rest behind the point of St. Ignace of Michillimackinac, floating in that tranquil cove where crystal waters cover but cannot hide the pebbly depths beneath.
"Whoopee for the snow!" yelled the midget. "Me with a mackinaw and boots, and mittens and a shovel. Snow! Clean white snow! I love it! But I haven't seen any clean snow for years. All that you ever see now is the dirty slush that they scrape off the streetcar tracks. I sure would be disappointed, Mister Welborn, if you didn't have a lot of clean snow. And you have some sort of a shack, don't you?
Meanwhile the Indian allies, under control of the great Pontiac, were fighting immigration and civilization. Between Fort Pitt Pittsburgh and the Fox River, in Wisconsin, the home of the Sacs and Foxes, they had captured nine out of thirteen military posts, and were secretly planning the downfall of Fort Mackinaw.
The publicans are all obedience to their commands, never hesitating to let them run up scores without limit, knowing that, when their own money is expended, the purses of their employers must answer for the bill, or the voyage must be delayed. Neither was it possible, at that time, to remedy the matter at Mackinaw.
Clasped outside his Mackinaw jacket, a beaded belt held two large Colt's revolvers and a hunting knife, while he carried, in addition to the inevitable dog whip, a smokeless rifle of the largest bore and latest pattern. As he came forward, for all his step was firm and elastic, they could see that fatigue bore heavily upon him.
Such a person was Alexander Henry, who left Quebec in 1760, for Mackinaw and the Sault St. Marie, and remained in those regions, of which he has given us a most lively account, sixteen years. His visit to Mackinaw was premature; the Indians were far from satisfied; they hated their new masters.
Why are you here, on the banks of the Kalamazoo, when your path ought to lead you more toward the St. Joseph's?" "Been to Mackinaw. Gen'ral says, first go to Mackinaw and see wid own eye how garrison do den go to Chicago, and tell warrior dere what happen, and how he best manage. Understan' dat, Bourdon?" "Aye, it all sounds well enough, I will acknowledge.
"Don't you know, sweetheart, that there has never been another? Why, you have known me all my life!" But the blue eyes were serious. "I mean, since since you went away?" For answer the man raised his arm and pointed toward the opposite wall. "Hand me that mackinaw," he said. Ethel gasped and stared at him wide eyed. "The mackinaw that old striped coat next to the slicker," he smiled.
She could give him more than this half-breed girl could give him, and she would fight to win back her own that which had been her own from the first. Almost at her feet upon the floor, just under the edge of the bunk where it had been carelessly tossed, lay his mackinaw of coarse, striped cloth. The girl stooped, drew it forth, and smoothed it out.
She hesitated a little. "Sometimes not often. That sounds egotistic, but really it is true." The steamer drew out of the mouth of Toba Inlet. In the widening stretch between the mainland and the Redondas a cold wind came whistling out of Homfray Channel. Hollister felt the chill of it through his mackinaw coat and was moved to thought of his companion's comfort.
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