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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
Now we were in a dilemma; night was approaching and there were fifty hungry men sixteen miles from their base of supplies, no dwelling house within several miles, and no road in any direction. A council was called, and Daniel L. C. Eaton, of Saginaw, and E. P. Bird, then of Saginaw, but afterwards a resident of Lansing, volunteered to go to Saginaw with a canoe and bring us a supply of provisions.
A little after midnight our friends returned with a canoe well laden wit! cooked provisions which the ladies of Saginaw City had furnished by empty ing their larders of what had been prepared for the coming Sabbath, and of all the choice banquets I have ever partaken of I never enjoyed one more than that midnight lunch on board the old steamboat Buena Vista.
We whiled away the time as best we could till morning (not much sleep) indulged in), when what boats there were were manned for the trip to Saginaw, and the balance of the crowd wended their way over the trail by way of the Indian settlement at Swan Creek. The late Alpheus F. Williams was in company with me, and at Swan Creek we were kindly invited to spend the night with our friend Muck-a-ta-mish-a-way (Black Elk) [Mackete Mishe-we—Black Stag, where we were comfortably provided for in his wig wam, and returned to Saginaw the next morning. We felt a little humiliated at being seen tramping over the country on the Sabbath when we found ou Indian friends deeply engaged in their devotions. The Buena. Vista remained at the forks two weeks for repairs, when she returned to deep water, and that ended the project of a plank road from Corunna and Owosso to the fork of the Bad river.
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