The town was small and cheaply built, and had no wharf, so that when the steamboat came we had to go out to it in a small boat.

The stream which came in here was too shallow for the steamer to enter.

When near the lower end of the lake we stopped at an island to take on food and several cords of white birch wood.

The next stopping place was at Michilamackanac, afterward called Mackinaw.

Here was a short wharf, and a little way back a hill, which seemed to me to be a thousand feet high, on which a fort had been built.