. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. alled. These mis-sionaries ventured unprotected through the wilderness topreach their faith. Many of them were tortured and slain bythe Indians;
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. alled. These mis-sionaries ventured unprotected through the wilderness topreach their faith. Many of them were tortured and slain bythe Indians; but gradually their patient endurance so im-pressed the savages that a Jesuit could go anywhere amongthem. Christian missions sprang up, and many of the nativesturned to a milder, gentler style of living. Notable among these missionaries was Father Marquette,who was the first to reach the ^Mississippi River or at least thefirst to make record of its discovery. The Indians told himof this Father of waters which flowed southward; and witha trader named Joliet he penetrated the Wisconsin woods un-til they reached the stream in (1673). Then they sailed south-ward on its waters in a canoe for a thousand miles, preachingto the Indians and trading with them. The trader Joliet rep-resents the other type of French explorer of the time, the busi-ness-like seeker for furs who when he could hope for profit,would \enture forth as boldly as the IX (i
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