Chapter 3

Marquette's visit to Iroquois Point -- Chapel and Fort -- Old Mackinaw -- The French settlement in the Northwest -- Erection of chapel and Fort -- The gateway of commerce -- The rendezvous of traders, trappers, soldiers, missionaries, and Indians -- Description of fort -- Courriers des Bois -- Expedition of Marquette and Joliet to explore the Mississippi -- Green Bay -- Fox River -- Wisconsin -- Mississippi -- Peoria Indians -- Return trip -- Kaskaskia Indians -- St. Xavier Missions -- Mission to "the Illinois" -- Marquette's health declines -- Starts out on return trip to Mackinaw -- Dies and is buried at mouth of Marquette River -- Indians remove his remains to Mackinaw -- Funeral cortege -- Ceremonies -- Burial in the chapel -- Changes of time -- Schoolcraft on the place of Marquette's burial -- Missilimackinac -- Name of Jesuit missions. 39