. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. trav-el-ers paddled down theriver. In all this time they did not see any Indi-ans. After they had gone hundreds of miles inthis way, they came to a place w^here they saw tracksin the mud. It was in what is now the Stateof I-o-wa. Mar-quette and Jo-li-et left the men in their ca-noes, and followed the tracks. After w^alking tw^ohours, they came to an Indian village. The French-men came near enough to hear the Indians talk-ing. The Indians did not see them. Jo-li-et and Mar-quette did not know whether theIndians would kill them or not. They said
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. trav-el-ers paddled down theriver. In all this time they did not see any Indi-ans. After they had gone hundreds of miles inthis way, they came to a place w^here they saw tracksin the mud. It was in what is now the Stateof I-o-wa. Mar-quette and Jo-li-et left the men in their ca-noes, and followed the tracks. After w^alking tw^ohours, they came to an Indian village. The French-men came near enough to hear the Indians talk-ing. The Indians did not see them. Jo-li-et and Mar-quette did not know whether theIndians would kill them or not. They said a shortprayer. Then they stood out in full view, and gavea loud shout. The Indians came out of their tents like stared at the strangers. Then four Indi-ans came toward them. These Indians carrieda peace pipe. They held this up toward the meant that they were friendly. The Indians now offered the peace pipe to theFrench-men. The French-men took it, and smokedwith the Indians. This was the Indian way ofsaying, We are friends. IV. :3 H 15 Mar-quette asked the Indians what tril^e theybelonged to. They told him that they were of thetribe called the Il-li-nois. They took Jo-li-et and Mar-quette into their vil-lage. They came to the door of a large chief stood in the door. He shaded his eyeswith both hands, as if the sun were shining in hisface. Then he made a little speech. He said, French-men, how^ bright the sun shineswhen you come to see us! We are all waitingfor vou. You shall now come into our houses inpeace. The Il-li-nois Indians made a feast for their newfriends. First they had mush of corn meal, with fatmeat in it. One of the Indians fed the French-men as though they were babies. He put mushinto their mouths with a large spoon. Then came some fish. The Indian that fed thevis-it-ors picked out the bones with his he put the pieces of fish into their this they had some roasted dog. The French-men did not like this. Last, t
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