rtation -- Railways
and vessels -- Lumber -- Vessels cleared -- Lake cities and
Atlantic ports -- Home-market -- Breadstuffs -- Michigan
flour -- Monetary panics -- Wheat -- Importations --
Provisions -- Fruit -- Live stock -- Wool -- Shipping
business -- Railroads -- Lake Superior trade -- Pine lumber
trade -- Copper interest -- Iron interest -- Fisheries --
Coal mines -- Salt -- Plaster beds. 272

CHAPTER XV.

Desirableness of a trip to the Lakes -- Routes of travel --
Interesting localities -- Scenery -- Southern coast --
Portage Lake -- Dr. Houghton -- Ontonagon -- Apostles'
Islands -- Return trip -- Points of interest -- St. Mary's
River -- Lake St. George -- Point de Tour -- Lake Michigan --
Points of interest -- Chicago. 395

CHAPTER I.

Mackinaw and its surroundings -- Indian legends -- Hiawatha
-- Ottawas and Ojibwas -- Paw-pau-ke-wis -- San-ge-man --
Kau-be-man -- An Indian custom -- Dedication to the spirits
-- Au-se-gum-ugs -- Exploits of San-ge-man -- Point St.
Ignatius -- Magic lance -- Council of Peace -- Conquests of
San-ge-man.

Mackinaw, with its surroundings, has an interesting and romantic
history, going back to the earliest times. The whole region of the
Northwest, with its vast wildernesses and mighty lakes, has been
traditionally invested with a mystery. The very name of Mackinaw, in
the Indian tongue, signifies the dwelling-place of the Great Genii,
and many are the legends written and unwritten connected with its
history. If the testimony of an old Indian chief at Thunder Bay can be
credited, it was at old Mackinaw that Mud-je-ke-wis, the father of
Hiawatha, lived and died.

Traditional history informs us that away back in a remote period of
time, the Ottawas and the Ojibwas took up their journey from the Great
Salt Lake towards the setting sun. These tribes were never stationary,
but were constantly roving about. They were compared by the
neighboring tribes to Paw-pau-ke-wis, a name given by the Indians to
the light-drifting snow, which blows over the frozen ground in the
month of March, now whirling and eddying into gigantic and anon into
diminutive drifts. Paw-pau-ke-wis signifies running away. The name was
given to a noted Indian chief, fully equal in bravery and daring to
Hiawatha, Plu-re-busta, or Man-a-bosho.

The Ottawas and Ojibwas