A first book in American history with European beginnings . ravelers gotsafely past. In a few days more they came to the mouth of the riverwhich the Indians called the Ohio, or Beautiful they had passed this, the weather grew warmer veryrapidly, and the mosquitoes tormented them day and night. As Joliet and Marquette neared the mouth of theArkansas River, they saw a group of wigwams on thewestern bank. The inhabitants stood waving their hatch-ets and yelling the war whoop. Boat loads of them came 142 THE EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS out on both sides of the white men, so that they could
A first book in American history with European beginnings . ravelers gotsafely past. In a few days more they came to the mouth of the riverwhich the Indians called the Ohio, or Beautiful they had passed this, the weather grew warmer veryrapidly, and the mosquitoes tormented them day and night. As Joliet and Marquette neared the mouth of theArkansas River, they saw a group of wigwams on thewestern bank. The inhabitants stood waving their hatch-ets and yelling the war whoop. Boat loads of them came 142 THE EARLY FRENCH EXPLORERS out on both sides of the white men, so that they could goneither forward nor backward, while a swarm of daring-young braves waded out into the river. The white menwere terribly frightened and called upon the saints toprotect them, Marquette holding up his peace pipe all thewhile. The young warriors paid no attention to this; butwhen the older ones saw it, they quieted the young bravesand told the Frenchmen to come on shore. This theydid, and were treated kindly. Marquette and Joliet had now gone far enough to. 5§F^* From the bronze relief by H. A. McNeil, in the Marquette Building, Burial, of Marquette. make sure that the Mississippi flowed, not into the Gulfof California, but into the Gulf of Mexico. If they wenton to the mouth of the river they might be killed by savageIndians, or by Spaniards. So they decided to go backto Canada and report what they had found. It was the end of September when they once morereached Green Bay. Leaving Marquette here, Joliet wenton to tell Count Frontenac of all they had had been gone four months, and had made a canoetrip of more than 2,500 miles. 143 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY LA SALLES PLANS AND EARLY EXPLORATIONS When Joliet reached Montreal with the news of hisgreat discovery, he met there a very brave and strong-minded man named La Salle. Hearing Joliets story,La Salle asked Count Frontenac to let him go to Franceto tell the King of all that he had heard. Fro
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