CHAPTER XLIX.

Population of Michilimackinack--Notices of the weather--Indian name of

the Wolverine--Harbor closed--Intensity of temperature which can be

borne--Domestic incidents--State of the weather--Fort Mackinack

unsuccessfully attacked in 1814--Ossiganoc--Death of an Indian

woman--Death of my sister--Harbor open--Indian name of the Sabbath

day--Horticultural amusement--Tradition of the old church door--Turpid

conduct of Thomas Shepard, and his fate--Wind, tempests, sleet, snow--A

vessel beached in the harbor--Attempt of the American Fur Company to

force ardent spirits into the country, against the authority of

the agent.

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