. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. o exchange furs for the goods fromMontreal. On the 8th of June, exactly a year from the daythat he had left Montreal, M. de la Verendrye pushedforward with all his people for Fort St. Pierre. Fiveweeks later he was welcomed inside the soldiers were a wonder to the awe-struckCrees, who hung round the gateway with hands overtheir hushed lips. Gifts of ammunition won theloyalty of the chiefs. Not to be lacking in generosity,the Indians collected fifty of their
. Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest. o exchange furs for the goods fromMontreal. On the 8th of June, exactly a year from the daythat he had left Montreal, M. de la Verendrye pushedforward with all his people for Fort St. Pierre. Fiveweeks later he was welcomed inside the soldiers were a wonder to the awe-struckCrees, who hung round the gateway with hands overtheir hushed lips. Gifts of ammunition won theloyalty of the chiefs. Not to be lacking in generosity,the Indians collected fifty of their gaudiest canoes andoffered to escort the explorer west to the Lake of theWoods. De la Verendrye could not miss such an SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA 207 offer. Though his voyageurs were fatigued, he set outat once. He had reached Fort St. Pierre on July August his entire fleet glided over the Lake of theWoods. The threescore canoes manned by the Creeboatmen threaded the shadowy defiles and labyrinthinechannels of the Lake of the Woods — or Lake of theIsles — coasting island after island along the south or. A Group of Cree Indians. Minnesota shore westward to the opening of the riverat the northwest angle. This was the border of theSioux territory. Before the boatmen opened thechannel of an unknown river. Around them weresheltered harbors, good hunting, and good Crees favored this region tor winter campingground because they could hide their families from 2o8 PATHFINDERS OF THE WEST the Sioux on the sheltered islands of the wooded frosts had painted the forests red. The flackerof wild-fowl overhead, the skim of ice forming on thelake, the poignant sting of the north wind — all fore-warned winters approach, Jean de la Verendrye hadnot come up with the supplies from explorer did not tempt mutiny by going ordered a halt and began building a fort that wasto be the centre of operations between Montreal andthe unfound West
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