Maryland Historical Magazine,
vol. 4.
Love, William H.
A Quaker Pilgrimage.
pp. 1-24.
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extensive width, is not inferior to the description given of this location in yesterday's notes.
At Mississinaway, a large Indian town of the Miamis, situated about thirty miles below us, on the Wabash, stone coal is found, which with limestone continues for two hundred miles down the river.
There are no Indians between this and Fort Wayne, neither any between this and Mississinaway. Philip Dennis' nearest neighbors will be at the Little Turtle's town, eighteen miles distant. Whilst here we have seen four peroques loaded with peltry, manned by Canadians and Indians, on their way up the river to be transported to Detroit.
I may here observe that the Wabash affords an abundance of large turtles, called soft shelled turtles, the outer coat being a hard skin, rather than a shell. They are esteemed excellent food. It also affords a great variety of fine fish, and we saw ducks in abundance; we are told it is resorted to by geese and swans.
About 8 o'clock in the morning we set out for Fort Wayne, where we arrived about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and after dining with William Wells returned to our lodgings.
14th. I may here observe that some days ago we came to a conclusion to return home by the way of the lakes. To this we have been induced from a hope that we shall be subjected to fewer difficulties and much less fatigue than to retrace the way by which we came; and I may also add, that we have been encouraged to this by the advice of our kind friends heretofore named, who have with much apparent cheerfulness offered to prepare a way for us; and this morning being informed by our worthy friend, Captain Whipple, that the boat intended for us would be in readiness against to-morrow, we spent the day in making preparations, and in writing to our families.
15th. This morning we bade both a joyful and sorrowful farewell to Philip Dennis, and the two young men who accompanied us out. We also took leave of those generally with whom we had formed an acquaintance, first breakfasting with Captain Whipple, whose hearty kindness to us has been so often repeated, that his name will deservedly claim a place in our remembrance.
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