The Irish standard., 1893-07-22

UL, SATURDAY., Jul
tribe OF Folles .Avoines Indians who
warned them against pursuing their jour
ney on account Of many dangers which
they mentioned. But the intrepid ex-
plorers rushed on till they entered Green
Bay through which they passed until
they reached the mouth OF Fox river
which empties into Green Bay; thence
up the Fox river to Winnebago. They
arrived at the village where the Miamis,
Mascoutens and ckapoos lived in union
and harmony. There was cross in the
midst OF this village and Father Allouez
had preached among them. Farther west
than this NO white man had yet ventured
into the country of the Northwest.
s5 With Indian guides the explorers left
this village on the tenth of June; reached
the Portage, crossed it to the Wisconsin
r.iver and sent back their guides. Then
these immortal seven Frenchmen aoated
down the Wisconsin until on the seven
teenth day OF June they became the dis
qnverers Of the northern Mississippi
river. A century and quarter earlier
be Soto had gazed upon this mighty
stream in the sunny southland but to
Father Marquette and his companions
belongs the glory Of having discovered it
il the north.
i. On the seventeenth day Of June, 1873,
commenced chat voyage which some
Homer may yet immortalize and the de-
tails of which would fill volume. With
out recounting all the incidents of that
famous trip, suffice it to say that mono
more eventful ever occurred. They de-
Eacended as far south as the Arkansas.
Dn their way they visited tribe of Illi-
|nois Indians on the west bank, q hundred
miles below the Wisconsin river where
they were courteously treated. A big
Eemoke and big feast. Plenty of hominy
and fish and roast buffalo and dog meat.
On their way they also passed the MONS
ters and the demons against which they
had been warned by the Folles Ayoines.
They passed the pointed figure of the
Piasa on the rocks near Alton; they saw
the mouth Of the mighty Pekita1oni or
Missouri river; passed the dangerous
Erock at Grand Tower; came to the mouth
Jes the Chic; reached the land Of Mos
quitoes; experienced the heats>of which
the Northern tribes had told them; and
finally arrived among the Arkancas or
Arkansas where they received most un-
friendly greeting and were attacked by a
group Of warriors. When the pipe Of
peace had been presented and the young
men had been restrained by the sachems
of the council then they were welcomed
to the village Of Akansca.
From here Marquette concluded to re-
turn and on the seventeenth of July they
assembled the Mississippi until they found
the mouth Of the Illinois. BY the advice
Of the Indians they assembled this river
as being shorter route to the lake.
[ On the Illinois he preached for three
days at Parouaca and also found an In
dian village of seventy-four cabins where
he was kindly received and promised to
return to them. He reached his mission
Of st Ignatius near the close Of Septem-
ber. From there Joliet went back to
Canada to report the discovery, but by
npsetting his canoe lost his papers so
that the journal Of Marquette is the only
record left OF this voyage.
Marquette kept his promise to return
to the Illinois tribe and in 1878 reached
them again But it was in that year that
his toilsome journey came to an end. He
had been worn by fatigue and wasted by
disease So that On the eighteenth day OF
May, 1875, while back on Lake Michigan
he asked the boatman to land at the
mouth of the little stream which now
bears his name and there he died and
was buried in the sandy soil from whore
The Indians unearthed him few years
after and buried him near his mission.
Charlevoix who visited the sp, about
half q century later strangely records
that the high water had not disturbed
the place where the grave had been as it
had preferred to cut a channel through
bluff. Thus the elements Of nature
and the red children OF the forest have
set an example OF homage worthy FOR the
white generations to follow.
Rev. VIM. Barry, D. D. IL.
Rev. William Barry, D. D.. the we'll
known author Of .The New Antigone,' 2
who is to represent England at the COM
ing Catholic Congress- ia Chicago, has
been (sayg the London correspondent OF
the Dublin Freeman) offered protes-
|soris chair il the Washington Catholic
University. but + learn that there is no
probability Of his accepting il. Doctor