Essentials of United States history . ea of happiness, many of them were happy. Though their work was of httle lasting benefit to the Indians,it was of great value to France. The Jesuits blazed the wayfor the soldier, the trapper, and the trader. Their tact andtheir knowledge of the red mans character won the allegianceof the Indian, if their religion did not win his heart. Thework of one of these missionaries. Piquet, was said to havebeen worth that of two regiments of soldiers. 89. Marquette and Joliet. — The Indians who visited thefrontier mission post of Michilimackinac (Mish-il-i-mack-i-n
Essentials of United States history . ea of happiness, many of them were happy. Though their work was of httle lasting benefit to the Indians,it was of great value to France. The Jesuits blazed the wayfor the soldier, the trapper, and the trader. Their tact andtheir knowledge of the red mans character won the allegianceof the Indian, if their religion did not win his heart. Thework of one of these missionaries. Piquet, was said to havebeen worth that of two regiments of soldiers. 89. Marquette and Joliet. — The Indians who visited thefrontier mission post of Michilimackinac (Mish-il-i-mack-i-nack) s])oke of a river which flowed to the south, ever gain-ing in volume. They called it the Mississippi ( the father of 82 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY waters), but no one seemed to know just where it enteredthe sea. The French wondered whether it flowed into theAtlantic, or the Pacific, or the Gulf of Mexico. Father Marquette (markef), who had charge of the port ofMichilimackinac, had a great desire to seek this river. He. Marquette Preaching to the Indians. did not, however, leave his post until, in 1673, Louis Joliet(zholyu) arrived at the mission. Stories of the great riverhad even reached Quebec, and Joliet had been dispatchedto join Marquette and explore its course. Together they setout in birch canoes and finally, by means of lakes and streamsand portages, they reached the Mississippi, with a joy, as THE FRENCH COLONIES Sc Louisiana. Marquette wrote, which he could not express. They floateddown the river as far as the mouth of the Arkansas, and then,having determined that it flowed into the Gulf, they returned,Marquette to his work among the Indians and Joliet to Quebecwith an account of the voyage. 90. La Salle. — Eight years later (1681) Robert Cavelierde La Salle, the commander ofFort Frontenac on Lake Ontario,set out to complete the explora-tions begun by Marquette. Onthe 19th of April, 1682, he reachedthe mouth of the a cross and a
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