An introduction to American history, European beginnings . Driving the Frexxh Captives toFort St. Augustine FRANCE AND THE NEW WORLD 279 French missionaries and explorers. The French hadahvays been interested in the conversion of the Indiansas part of their efforts at colonization. Some of thetrading companies were required to provide and sup-port a priest at each trading post. In one case the. Joliets Map (From Winsors Cartier to Frontenac ) land was granted jointly to the trading company andthe Church. This work of Christianizing the heathensoon fell into the hands of Jesuit missionaries. Th
An introduction to American history, European beginnings . Driving the Frexxh Captives toFort St. Augustine FRANCE AND THE NEW WORLD 279 French missionaries and explorers. The French hadahvays been interested in the conversion of the Indiansas part of their efforts at colonization. Some of thetrading companies were required to provide and sup-port a priest at each trading post. In one case the. Joliets Map (From Winsors Cartier to Frontenac ) land was granted jointly to the trading company andthe Church. This work of Christianizing the heathensoon fell into the hands of Jesuit missionaries. These men, stirred by a strong religious zeal, sharedall the dangers and hardships of the French explorerson their expeditions into the unknown regions of the 28o INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY West, through forests and swamps and over the manyrivers and lakes of the St. Lawrence Bashi. One of these missionaries, Father Marquette, stationedat a Jesuit mission on Lake Superior, heard vaguerumors of a great river flowing to the south. He wasfilled with a desire to convert the Indians alonir itsbanks. He succeeded in having himself added to anofficial exploring party which set out in 1673 and whichwas headed by Louis Joliet. Ascending the Fox Riverfrom Lake Michigan, the party carried their canoesfrom its headwaters to the Wisconsin, down whichthey floated till they came to the Mississippi
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