. The student's American history . the mouth ofthe placid Ohio, and two days later passed the point where De* Soto (§ 20) had crossed the Mississippi more than a hundredand thirty years before. Thence moving southward in theshadow of forests of Cottonwood, magnolia, and cypress, theycame to the mouth of the Arkansas. There the nativeswarned them that they would encounter hostile tribes, and per-haps Spaniards, if they ventured farther down the stream. The explorers resolved to go back and report what they hadseen. Under the fierce rays of a July sun they began the exhaust-ing toil of pushing t
. The student's American history . the mouth ofthe placid Ohio, and two days later passed the point where De* Soto (§ 20) had crossed the Mississippi more than a hundredand thirty years before. Thence moving southward in theshadow of forests of Cottonwood, magnolia, and cypress, theycame to the mouth of the Arkansas. There the nativeswarned them that they would encounter hostile tribes, and per-haps Spaniards, if they ventured farther down the stream. The explorers resolved to go back and report what they hadseen. Under the fierce rays of a July sun they began the exhaust-ing toil of pushing their canoes northward against the powerfulcurrent. In time they reached the Illinois, and, crossing overfrom a tributary of that stream to the Chicago River, theyentered the waters of Lake Michigan, where the greatest cityof the Northwest now stands.^^ 158. La Salles expedition to the Illinois country (1679-80). — Six years later (1679) La Salle, the commander of FortFrontenac (now Kingston), set out to secure the possession of. THE FRENCH IN THE WEST. ENGLISH AND FRENCH SETTLEMENTS. I3I the Mississippi to France, and to open up trade with made his way to the Niagara River. There, a short dis-tance above the Falls, he built the Griffin, the first vesselever launched on the waters of the upper Great Lakes. La Salle with his little party, among whom was FatherHennepin, a Franciscan friar, sailed (1C79) to Green Green Bay he loaded the Griffin with furs, and sent thevessel back to Niagara with orders to obtain a cargo of sup-plies, and return to him at the Chicago River or vessel was never again heard of. La Salle then embarkedwith his men in a fleet of canoes for the St. Joseph Riveron the east side of the lake. At that point (1679) thecommander constructed Fort Miami. He then ascended theSt. Joseph, and crossing over the portage to the head watersof the Kankakee River, descended that stream, entered theIllinois, and kept on until (1G8
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