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XXI.    I am not any longer my own" 243 XXII.    Kateri's Vow on Lady Day, and the Summer Of 1679 253 XXIII.    Kateri Ill.—Thérèse consults the Blackgown.— Feast of the Purification.—The Bed of Thorns 260 XXIV.    Kateri's Death.—"I will love thee in Heaven!"—The Burial.—Her Grave And Monument 270 XXV.    The Memory and Influence of Kateri Tekakwitha After Her Death.—Modern Caughnawaga 285 Conclusion 293

APPENDIX

Notes, Topographical and Historical

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Tekakwitha's Spring	xiv
The Mohawk Valley from Fonda, N. Y.	6
Map of Mohawk Castle-Sites, by General Clark	38
Old Albany—Dominie Schaats' House	52
Site of Caughnawaga Castle, Fonda, N. Y.	103
Map showing the Migrations of the Mission Village of the Sault	194
Street Scene at Caughnawaga, in Canada	279
Modern Caughnawaga, P. Q. (from the Landing)	299

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THE LIFE AND TIMES

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KATERI TEKAKWITHA.[1]

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CHAPTER I.

TEKAKWITHA'S SPRING.

IN the valley of the Mohawk, near the present great highways of the State of New York, is a quiet forest nook, where a clear, cold spring gurgles out from the tangled roots of a tree. Connected with this spring is the story of a short girl-life, pure, vigorous, sorrow-taught. It is written out in authentic documents; while Nature, also, has kept a record of an Indian maiden's lodge beside the spring. There on the banks of the Mohawk River, at Caughnawaga, now called Fonda, in Montgomery County, dwelt the Lily of the Mohawks two centuries ago, when the State had neither shape nor name. She saw her people build a strong, new palisaded village there. She saw, though at rare intervals, the peaceful but adventurous traders of Fort Orange, and the blackgowns of New France pass in and out on friendly errands. Mohegans came there also in her day to lay siege to the village, but only to be met with fierce defiance and to be driven back. Marks of that very Indian fort can still be found at Fonda, where the Johnstown Railway now branches from the New York Central, and turns northward along the margin of the Cayudutta Creek. The smoke of the engine, as it leaves the town of Fonda, mounts to the level of a plateau on which the Mohawk Castle