. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. es,as it brought them within a few days travel of Lake Michigan. Onthe banks of the river they found a village, the inhabitants of whichreceived them kindly, and begged the good father to return to them,which he promised to do. One of the chiefs guided him to the lakeand then the party sailed to Green Bay, arriving there near the endof September. Soon after, the good father went back to the Indians on theIllinois as he had promised, and took up his life as a missionaryamong them, staying there more than a year. Then he startednor
. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. es,as it brought them within a few days travel of Lake Michigan. Onthe banks of the river they found a village, the inhabitants of whichreceived them kindly, and begged the good father to return to them,which he promised to do. One of the chiefs guided him to the lakeand then the party sailed to Green Bay, arriving there near the endof September. Soon after, the good father went back to the Indians on theIllinois as he had promised, and took up his life as a missionaryamong them, staying there more than a year. Then he startednorthward to visit the Green Bay mission. While passing along theeastern shore of Lake Michigan he entered a small river on the 18thof May, 1G75. Landing, he made a rude altar, said mass, and thenretired a short distance into the woods to pray. As time passed andhe did not return, his men went to look for him, and found him onhis knees, dead. Thus, in prayer the soul of the good ftither went tothe great all-Father in heaven, whom he had taught the savages THE TRIALS OF THE CHEVALIER LA SALLE. 1667—1684. HE French, like all the other early explorers, believed thatthey could find a way through the continent to the southsea, and when the Indians told them of a great river inthe west, their first thought was that this was the long-desired highway to the Indies. One of the men whostarted out to seek for this impossibility was the Che-valier La Salle, one of the bravest, most heroic men thatever lived. La Salle came to New France to seek his fortune in 1667. Hefirst engaged in the fur trade, and secured from the government agrant of exclusive traffic with the Five Nations, the Indian tribesthat then lived in New York. He then obtained a grant of land afew miles above Montreal where he marked out a village and built ahouse and a small fort. But as he came to learn more of the countryand heard the Indians speak of the great western river, he sold mostof his rights and bought su
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