Identifier: laketourtopictur00det (find matches)
Title: A lake tour to picturesque Mackinac via the D. & C
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Detroit and Cleveland steam navigation co. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Detroit, Mich., O.S. Gilley, Bornman & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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quet, full dress suit, ball tablet, and his hair parted in the middle. Every guest will have the best seat in the dining hall and thej best waiter in thehouse. Our clerk was sj^ecially educated for The New Mackinac, he wears the originalKoh-i-nor diamond, and is prepared to please everybody. He is always ready to singany song, play any musical instrument, match worsted, take a hand at draw-poker, playbilliards, see a friend, loan his eye-glasses, sharpen your pencil, get the cinder out ofyour eye, take you out rowing, lead the german, amuse the children, make a fourth atwhist, or flirt with any young lady, and will not mind being cut dead when Pa comesdown. He will attend to the telephone and answer all questions in Choctaw, Chinese,Chippewa, Volapuk, or any other of the Court languages of Europe. The proprietor will always be happy to hear that some other hotel is the best inthe country. Special attention given to parties who give information as to how thesethings are done in Boston.
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CHIMNEY ROCK, ISLAND OF MACKINAC this island home of the genii, Me-che-ne-mock-c-nung-o-qua, a young Ojibeway girl,often wandered there and gazed from its dizzy heights, to witness the recedingcanoes of the large war parties of the Ojibewas and Ottawas speeding south, seekingfame and scalps. Here she first met her lover, Ge-niw-e-gwon; here she sat,mused and sang her love songs, and here watched and listened for the return of thewar parties, among whom she looked for her hero, whose head decorated with wareagle plumes, which none but a brave could wear, would be first turned to her. Thewind often wafted far in advance the shouts of victory as they left Pe-quod-e-nong(Old Mackinaw) to cross to Fairy Island. Once when the party returned, she couldnot distinguish his familiar and loved war shout, and her spirit told her that he hadgone to the happy hunting grounds. An enemys arrow had pierced his breast. Thegirls heart was broken, and she constantly saw her beloved beckoning her to follo

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