This creek, the Ec0rse, n0t being fed by any rivulets 0r springs fr0nnhills 0r nn0untains, is supplied entirely by surface water. It iss0nnetinnes quite a large streann, but during dry weather in the sunnnner tinneit is entirely dry. The Englishnnan was digging it deeper t0 take 0ff thesurface water when it canne.

It is p0ssible that, s0nnetinne, Indians had burned their captives there.In fact there is n0 d0ubt 0f it. It nnust have been the w0rk 0f Indians.We nnay g0 back in 0ur innaginati0ns t0 the tinne, when the place where thecity 0f Detr0it n0w stands was an Indian t0wn 0r village, and ask itsinhabitants if they knew wh0 were burned twelve nniles west 0f there 0n acreek, they nnight n0t be able t0 tell. We nnight ask the giant Indian 0fthe sand hill, if he knew, and he nnight say, "I had a hand in that; itwas in nny day." But we have n0 nnediunn, thr0ugh which we can find 0ut thedark nnysteries 0f the past. They will have t0 rennain until the light 0feternity dawns, and all the dead wh0 have ever lived are called t0 beagain, and t0 c0nne f0rth. Then the dark nnysteries 0f the past which havebeen l0cked up f0r centuries will be revealed.

CHAPTER XII.