The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-02-13

Nor did they descending until they left the Wisconsin
hundred miles above Returning by the the Illinois
Chicago they proceeded by Lake Michigan Green Bay
much conversation and speculation old well France
At this time there dwe Canada, native of Rouen named La
oforesigh While
dent Jesuit College France he distinguished for his
Athe time ofNarquete from the Mississippi he living
his trading the junction of the St Lawrence with Lake Ontario
Kingston stands Around Fort for
the of the post there gathered few French families
The upon discovery Marquette and Joliet
the his complete what had been commenced and
pan from ohc Mississippi 70 obtain the
Louis XIV he sailed for France and the 1918 received
mis- sion to make discoveries part New France
build forts they necessary exclusive right the
buffalo skins which beginning to be known and val
Ted N Europe.
Among priests Frontenac, native of Flanders
of the modtative orde styled Recolect From early life he
eyinced rowing disposition and the stories oft sailors who used to
arbc Calais and Dnk where he had resided
said have created strong desire him the world
His Louis Hennepn boastng, and ambitious he
suffers by comparison with the meek uostenaous and
passed hs time IN missionary tours among the o" and is sand
have visited the capital of the of New York When
laden with materials for building ship suitable for nayiga
5 the osr landed %Gn aa the % E @
woods hold council with the Senecas whose good will they OBJ
tanned.
the shores the Niagara river and strained every max
ing for great gre IT,, western @ voyage In wee week. dock yard
the adze and the hammers vigorously though fear that the Indians
would apply the torch to their work and the omaawk to their sea
he says ''alay their fears. -
In six months the ready for launching was named
the Griffin compliment Count Fronenac the Governor Cana
da armoa bearings adorned by grins.
tended by few and onamented by eagle and griffin
By ropes the vessel towed from the Niagara River
August 1879 La Sale Hennepn and thirty Others entered the
bore the vessel most galan and three days they the Vi
where through
fRome they Lake they
ed terrible storms which the experienced sailor of
destitute of religious feeling began the Patron
Anthony Padua But hair their heads nurcd the
waves last fell to seeP and the sh of the month they safely
moored in one OF the harbors OF Nlackmaw island
and the other & mass and La
Indians This being desirable point for trade with the tribes fort
Green Bay
Griffin eghted with rs to the amount of H. 600 dollars and
Niagara which she reached uppos-
! ed, wrecked in another storm.
Leaving Green Bay in four birch La Sale and his followers
along the boundary Wisconsin,
neighborhood of Milwaukee river Fagucd
without supply of food they much dheaened but the nd
vicinity proved friendly
After being exposed per by land and by they land
the s November the mouth Joseph Nch-
Late the they started from thence for the Illinois
but before they reached that provisions again
In their extremity Providence assisted for Hennepn stray
buffalo found sticking fast marsh which served for food Az
journey of 300 miles, they last reached the Illinois and descend
Indian village situated the present of
being hand the inhabitants their
the travellers pressed with hunger could not refrain from helping
themselves to some of the corn
They proceed down the river until the January
so when they halted and had celebraton consisting
The being they entered Lake PEORIA at the lower
end Of which they discovered of Indians After
red had recovered from their aonmen they invited the
gers to their cabins and passed the day in feasting
asale told them that he had knowledge of the
God and to supply them with fire the place of the awk-
ward they had been to The night after he
made this speech chief of tribe residing on Fox stole
and calling the chiefs together told them that he had been
formed that the Fenchmen allied with their old the
quos This false intelligence communicated to the Indians by La
Sales produced much consternaton The
the place cord the travellers found only codnes suspicion
The commander inquired the of the sudden change and he
then told the whole tale of and address,
reganed their confidence He began inquire
Mississippi and spoke of his plan of building boat after the white
fashion, sail that The principal of the
did fully approve of his pan and they attempted duade him
by that the banks the Mississippi inhabited by
ganc of who killed all travellers that filled with
crocoes sepents well falls rapids
there a dreadful whirlpool at its MOUTH
The dscerment Of La Sale convinced him that this what
vuary hoax and he and told the spokesman his
sayings stamped with improbabiy These however
ofthe desert and others complain
cold with comfort the erection Of
commenced far distant from the town of Peoria. %
Here ofthe North Continent
Quaker purchased the Indians city
Philadelphia nd might be heard the sound of the
blowing FORGE the stroke Of the sdge and the ring
than weeks and in the midst of winter this explor-
ing FORT which they named Creveceu
the long and IL broad which
employed navigating Mississippi The necessary cordage and
rigging being absent ship could not be completed 2n
o~.oro ehn Io