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

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In days he had reached the mouth of the Illinois, but
floating ice he had wait time before could
which DWELL BY the l April he had padded far the
Wisconsin the vicinity Of which he met aoia fill
led with lssa Dakota Indians called lssai lsant is
after their ancient residence Mile Lac With them
ean% wo ass s ss dssare hr
Black found the Lake fTea which named because
this place what they should do with their and those who
were for numbering cried all night obg by their tears
Meschasipi and may be leagues long and five broad
As the Dakotas generally kind the of their
white cptves little credencc be to the tale of the
Father 'scaptivity. 5., ts~ --is, " = ~, a,eal s.i5o
After nineteen days travel with the Indians he discovered
act which he ndecd of itself terrible and hath something
very astonishing He reported falls in height
which quite moderate for the who published those Niagara
be GU Near the cataract bear skin upon poe sort OF
oblaton to the spirit in the , vi. -'..5,Ia
After carving ee CALI
ing expedition eloquent divine
Anthony abandoned his and by land the
his ode he called Their ofwelccmng
at that tne have been peculiar Says Hennepn at
rian who seemed be DID, presented with great to
smoke and weeping all the while with abundance of tears
he haasscd and gucd And indeed had often
when was down There was bears skin before the fire. upon
which boy ohe cabin caused lie down. and then
widcats anontcd my thighs legs my
feet" +..,
The first white then who looked upon the Falls of ST. Antho
ny Jesuit Senmetz, Kps eloquent preface
the early Jesuit Missions North America but Francis
ofthe Recoect branch. ~.-..:
While Hennepn dwelling upon the banks of the ST. Francis
he agreeab surprised by the arrival of traders
probably among the first who had penetrated far the ner
ote Dakota country About the last of September $780, the whites
consn, proceeded and Green Bay. Que
bee ennepn did long nta c but France and
Louisiana all of the valley ofthe Mississippi then called
Had the restless remained with the reputation
acquired by the discovery the Falls Anthony postery would
have viewed his exaggeraon and maements with kindly
and remembered his with pleasure -. ..
But evil hour he tempted claim the honor Of only
discovering the source but the mouth of the Mississippi
the cam what he had previously asserted and
nowned La Sale had unme by the hand of
ing description of the and productions the lower Mp
p Hennepn with the ado these missionary letters, and fertile
agnation prepared book entitled New Discovery country
America between New Mexico and the Frozen Ocean,
aid men, from Illinois Gulf Mexico back
more than $500 miles, in ory-nine days. .....
YOU not say Something about the discovery mouth of the Mis-
sspp first work. published than ten since? he
jealous him.
unfendy because during his first France when
ship had rcprmandd them for their gaey; La Sale who
fellow nerpoed and said there harm dancing
and that tie Franciscan had octeppcd the bounds of his authority
ensued called upon believe that by this
frivolous incident of bitterness planted in his bosom which
was cradicatcd'
of his sustained Hcnnepm regulations and shortly
AFTER find him his old leaving France. Crossing the Chan
ncl he published in London edition of his real and fictitious
discoveries the valley the Mississippi and aunch Roman
he procd be- entered into the pay Engnd Protestant King
Wlamt the ILL., was rival of France coon
zng the banks of the mississippi and willing leap over twenty
As the of Illinois, has already taken the Hen
which would have been appropriate nghborng and
beautiful village of ST. Anthony take leave of the dcoverer Of
those picturesque falls which will always render that equally
attractive the eye the and capitalist by suggesting that the
island which divides the laughing be called Hennepn who
though Bancroft bousu r neverhelessa daring
dcoverer.' i9''" af..n
Eight after ennep announced the discovery ohe Fails of
ST. Anthony his friends Canada another exploration of the valley
OF the Upper Mississippi undertaken by Baron 1ahontan About
the last of September l63S with large of French and Indians
he departed with his heavily laden from the fort Macknaw
and proceeded by the usual and Green Bay Fox and
the Mississippi whose waters he oated
the 23 of October Ascending this he that the Sd
Il
and its mouth filled with ushcs He remarks that he
ascended for than five hundred miles. Upon its banks dwe
three nations the Ekoro Eannapes and the Gnacstare On
of its great length having been empodsiy days in its ascent
he Riviere AS there that
of Baron Laona the light they the
with the discovery of the Minnesota Saint Pierre Ncoe
uppose that the Riere Tongue of Lahonan Cannon
which enters the Mississippi the head of Lake Pepn and that
this then outlet of the Minnesota reference the
shows that there but short distance between the of
Cannon and the LIE Sueu and other tributaries Of the Ma1kato
Blue Earth Rivers. ''
Bradford in his Notes the North West agrees with Nicole
He remarks there clear evidence from geological
that the whole Upper Mississippi time submerged and
highly probable that in the gradual of the waters which
have taken place 1880 l700 the extent has
attained, great lake may have covered all that area,
The suppoion that he passed through Cannon River
Of