The discovery of America . dson. 24. Riviere de Buade. 4. Labrador. 25. Paoutet, Malia, Atontauka, HH- 5. Le fleuve de St. Laurent. nois, Peouaria, 300 cabanes, 180 6. Tadoussac. canots de bois de 50 pieda de 7. Le Saguenay. long. 8. Quebec. 26. Minongio, Pani, Ouchag<5, Kanea, 9. Montroyal. Missouri. 10. Acadie. 27. Riviere de la Divine ou IOutre- 11. Baston [i. e. Boston]. laize. 12. Nouvelle Suede. 28. Riv. Ouabouskigou [i. e. Ohio]. 13. La Virgiuie. 29. Akansea sauvages. 14. La Floride. 30. Riviere Basiie. 15. Cap de la Floride. 31. Tapensa sauvages. 16. Fort de Frontenac. 32. Le Sein d
The discovery of America . dson. 24. Riviere de Buade. 4. Labrador. 25. Paoutet, Malia, Atontauka, HH- 5. Le fleuve de St. Laurent. nois, Peouaria, 300 cabanes, 180 6. Tadoussac. canots de bois de 50 pieda de 7. Le Saguenay. long. 8. Quebec. 26. Minongio, Pani, Ouchag<5, Kanea, 9. Montroyal. Missouri. 10. Acadie. 27. Riviere de la Divine ou IOutre- 11. Baston [i. e. Boston]. laize. 12. Nouvelle Suede. 28. Riv. Ouabouskigou [i. e. Ohio]. 13. La Virgiuie. 29. Akansea sauvages. 14. La Floride. 30. Riviere Basiie. 15. Cap de la Floride. 31. Tapensa sauvages. 16. Fort de Frontenac. 32. Le Sein de Mexique. 17. Lac Frontenac ou Ontario. 33. Le Mexique. 18. Lac Erie. 34. La Nouvelle Granade. 19. Lac Huron. 35. Mer Vermeille, ou est la Call- 20. Le Sault Ste Marie. foumie, par ou on peut aller au 21. Lac Sup^rieur. Perou, au Japon. et i la Chine. THE WORK OF TWO CENTURIES. 539 to explore the Illinois river to its mouth. Thelittle party were captured by Sioux Indians andcarried off into the Minnesota country as far as. the falls of St. Anthony and beyond. Hennepinspocket compass was regarded by these redskins aspotent medicine, so that he was adopted by anold chief and held in high esteem. After manyromantic adventures he found his way back to 640 THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Montreal, and indeed to Paris, where in 1683 hepublished a narrative of his experiences.^ Whathe had done and suffered entitled him to a fairmeed of fame, but in 1697, after La SaUe hadbeen ten years dead, and after the silly friar hadpassed into the service of England, he pubhshedanother account in which he declared that beforehis capture by the Sioux he had descended theMississippi river to its mouth and returned to thespot where he was captured.^ The unpudent liewas very easily exposed, and Father Hennepinsgood fame was ruined. His genuine adventures,however, in which the descriptions can be verified,are none the less interesting to the historian ; andfrom that time forth the French began to becomefam
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