. Young folks library . igent, enterprising,hardy and courageous. Though he had renounced thepriesthood he retained a strong liking for the Marquette, of an old and honorable Frenchfamily, was at the time thirty-five years old. He hadjoined the Jesuits at the age of seventeen, and in 1666was sent to the wilds of Canada as a missionary to theIndians. In two years he learned to speak with easesix Indian languages. He was a faithful, earnestworker, and of deep piety. At Michillimackinack, onthe strait between lakes Huron and Michigan, Jolietfound this good man in his little palisad
. Young folks library . igent, enterprising,hardy and courageous. Though he had renounced thepriesthood he retained a strong liking for the Marquette, of an old and honorable Frenchfamily, was at the time thirty-five years old. He hadjoined the Jesuits at the age of seventeen, and in 1666was sent to the wilds of Canada as a missionary to theIndians. In two years he learned to speak with easesix Indian languages. He was a faithful, earnestworker, and of deep piety. At Michillimackinack, onthe strait between lakes Huron and Michigan, Jolietfound this good man in his little palisaded mission ofSt. Ignatius, where he had been teaching the Indiansfor two years. He was now eager to venture amongthe new nations towards the South Sea who werestill unknown to him, and to teach them of ourgreat God whom they had not hitherto known. Thefollowing account of their remarkable journey is fromFather Marquettes own journal. DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI Bt father JAMES MARQUETTE.(Translated by J. B. D. Db Bow.). EMBARKED with M. JoHet,who had been chosen to con-duct this enterprise, on the13th May, 1673, with fiveother Frenchmen, in two barkcanoes. We laid in some In-dian corn and smoked beef forour voyage. We first tookcare, however, to draw from the Indians allthe information we could, concerning thecountries through which we designed to travel, anddrew up a map, on which we marked down the rivers,nations, and points of the compass to guide us in ourjourney. The first nation we came to was called theFolles-Avoines, or the nation of wild oats. I enteredtheir river to visit them, as I had preached amongthem some years before. The wild oats, from whichthey derive their name, grow spontaneously in theircountry. . I acquainted them with my design of discoveringother nations, to preach to them the mysteries of ourholy religion, at which they were much surprised, and 24a Discovery of the Mississippi 247 said all they could to dissuade me from it. They toldme I would meet In
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