Chapter V

VARINGON, Lieutenant, 18
Violence,
perpetuated against Daniel Morison, 12-18;
attempted rape, 35, 37;
catalog of Robert Johnson's misdeeds, 36-38;
voyageur beaten, 44

W
WALKER, Private, 22
West Indies, 46, 48
WILLIAMS, Henry, 21
Women,
Mrs. Thomas Carlile, 23, 25-26, 29-31, 37;
Mrs. George McBeath, 25, 37;
Mrs. John Savage, 25;
Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers, 33, 36;
Mrs. Oldham, 35, 37
Worship services, 23, 24

An innocent evening's entertainment ends in a wild brawl and an
attempted murder ...

A judge arrives late to a horse race because he has been busy
smuggling rum ...

The court-martial of a sergeant charged with being disrespectful to an
officer who was cavorting with the sergeant's own wife ...

These are a few of the strange but always fascinating events related
by Dr. Daniel Morison in the journal he kept from 1769 to 1772 while he
was surgeon's mate at Fort Michilimackinac.

Editing and interpreting this authentic and uncensored 18th-century
document, never before published in its entirety, is Dr. George S. May,
former research archivist of the Michigan Historical Commission.
Illustrating the text is the well-known artist, Dirk Gringhuis.

Transcriber's Notes

--Silently corrected a few typos, but left the good doctor's unique
spellings unchanged.

--Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook
is public-domain in the country of publication.

--In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by
_underscores_.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Doctor's Secret Journal, by Daniel Morison