. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. embarked the third time, and succeeded. Seven days afterleaving the fort, Hennepin reached the Mississippi, and paddling up theicy stream as best he could, reached no higher than the Wisconsin Riverby the 11th of April. Here he and his followers were taken prisoners by aband of Northern Indians, who treated them with great kindness. Hen-nepins comrades were Anthony Auguel and Michael Ako. On this voy-age they found several beautiful lakes, and saw some charming captors were the Isaute or Sauteurs, Chippewas, a tribe of
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. embarked the third time, and succeeded. Seven days afterleaving the fort, Hennepin reached the Mississippi, and paddling up theicy stream as best he could, reached no higher than the Wisconsin Riverby the 11th of April. Here he and his followers were taken prisoners by aband of Northern Indians, who treated them with great kindness. Hen-nepins comrades were Anthony Auguel and Michael Ako. On this voy-age they found several beautiful lakes, and saw some charming captors were the Isaute or Sauteurs, Chippewas, a tribe of the Siouxnation, who took them up the river until about the first of May, whenthey reached some falls, which Hennepin christened Falls of St. Anthony THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 27 in honor of his patron i?aint. Here they took the land, and travelingnearly two hundred miles to the northwest, brought them to their they were kept about three months, were treated kindly by theircaptors, and at the end of that time, were met by a band of Frenchmen,. BUFFALO HUNT, headed by one Seur de Luth, who, in pursuit of trade and game, had pene-trated thus far by the route of Lake Superior; and with these fellow-countrymen Hennepin and his companions were allowed to return to theborders of civilized life in November, 1680, just after LaSalle hadreturned to the wilderness on his second trip. Hennepin soon after wentto France, where he published an account of his adventures. 28 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. The Mississippi was first discovered by De Soto in April, 1541, in hisvain endeavor to find gold and precious gems. In the following Spring,De Soto, weary with hope long deferred, and worn out with his wander-ings, he fell a victim to disease, and on the 21st of May died. His followers,reduced by fatigue and disease to less than three hundred men, wanderedabout the country nearly a year, in the vain endeavor to rescue them-selves by land, and finally constructed seven small vessels, ca
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