Two hundred white winters and more
have fled from the face of the Summer
Since DuLuth on that wild, somber shore,
in the unbroken forest primeval,
From the midst of the spruce and the pines,
saw the smoke of the wigwams up-curling,
Like the fumes from the temples and shrines
of the Druids of old in their forests.
Ah, little he dreamed then, forsooth,
that a city would stand on that hill-side,
And bear the proud name of DuLuth,
the untiring and dauntless explorer,--
A refuge for ships from the storms,
and for men from the bee-hives of Europe,
Out-stretching her long, iron arms
o'er an empire of Saxons and Normans.
[AZ] Now called "Mud River"--it empties into the Mississippi at Aitkin.
[BA] _Gitchee See-bee_--Big River--is the Ojibway name for the
Mississippi, which is a corruption of Gitchee Seebee--as Michigan is a
corruption of _Gitchee Gumee_--Great Lake, the Ojibway name of Lake
Superior.
[BB] The Ojibways called the St. Louis River _Gitchee-Gumee
See-bee_--_Great-lake River_, i.e. the river of the Great Lake (Lake
Superior).
[BC] The route of DuLuth above described--from the mouth of the
Wild-Rice (Mud) River, to Lake Superior--was for centuries, and still
is, the Indians' canoe-route.
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