A history of the United States for schools . LA and one Indian guide, and they made their way, partlyby canoes, partly on foot, through a thousand miles oftangled wilderness to Montreal. After obtaining freshsupplies, he made his way back to the Illinois River, ^ This follows a design given in Gravier, which is said to be based onan engraving preserved in the Biblioth^que de Rouen. §68. OVERTHROW OF NEW FRANCE. 157 meeting strange adventures on the way. Part of thegarrison left in Fort Crevecoeur had mutinied and pulledthe fort to pieces ; reinforced by other knaves, theycruised on Lak
A history of the United States for schools . LA and one Indian guide, and they made their way, partlyby canoes, partly on foot, through a thousand miles oftangled wilderness to Montreal. After obtaining freshsupplies, he made his way back to the Illinois River, ^ This follows a design given in Gravier, which is said to be based onan engraving preserved in the Biblioth^que de Rouen. §68. OVERTHROW OF NEW FRANCE. 157 meeting strange adventures on the way. Part of thegarrison left in Fort Crevecoeur had mutinied and pulledthe fort to pieces ; reinforced by other knaves, theycruised on Lake Ontario in canoes, in the hope of kill-. NORTHERN PART OF NEW FRANCE. ing La Salle and plundering his party, but La Salle de-feated them and sent them in chains to the governor ofCanada for punishment. The remainder of the garrisonat Crevecoeur, with their noble young leader, Henri deTonty, whom La Salle had left in charge, took refugeamong the Illinois tribe of Indians ; in the course of thesummer, the great village of the Illinois was destroyedby the Iroquois, and the little band of Frenchmen re-treated to Green Bay on Lake Michigan. So when LaSalle reached the Illinois country, he found his friendsall gone. He spent the winter making alliances with thewestern tribes, and in the next summer, after findinghis friend Tonty on Lake Michigan, the two returned incanoes to Montreal to obtain fresh resources. La Salle suffered from want of money, and it was verydiscouraging that a ship from France, bringing many 158 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. IX. La Sallesthird at-tempt toexplore theMissis-sippi. carryinglaunched thousand
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