. The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county .. . or the outfit. On the 6th of July, 1669, the party, numbering twenty-four persons,embarked in seven canoes on the St. Lawrence; two additional canoescarried the Indian guides. In three days they were gliding over thebosom of Lake Ontario. Their guides conducted them directly to theSeneca village on the bank of the Genesee, in the vicinity of the presentCity of Rochester, New York. Here they expected to pi*ocure guides toconduct them to the Ohio, l)ut in this they were disappointed. The Indians seemed unfriendly to
. The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county .. . or the outfit. On the 6th of July, 1669, the party, numbering twenty-four persons,embarked in seven canoes on the St. Lawrence; two additional canoescarried the Indian guides. In three days they were gliding over thebosom of Lake Ontario. Their guides conducted them directly to theSeneca village on the bank of the Genesee, in the vicinity of the presentCity of Rochester, New York. Here they expected to pi*ocure guides toconduct them to the Ohio, l)ut in this they were disappointed. The Indians seemed unfriendly to the enterprise. LaSalle suspectedthat the Jesuits had prejudiced their minds against his plans. Afterwaiting a month in tlie hope of gaining their object, they met an Indian 84 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. from the Iroquois colony at the head of Lake Ontario, who assured themthat they could there find guides, and offered to conduct them thence. On their way they passed the mouth of the Niagara River, when theyheard for the first time the distant thunder of the cataract. Arriving. IKOtiUOlS CUIKF. among the Iroquois, they met with a friendly reception, and learnedfrom a Shawanee prisoner that they could reach the Ohio in six with the unexpected good fortune, they made ready to resumetheir journey; but just as they were about to start they heard of thearrival of two Frenchmen in a neighboring village. One of them provedto be Louis Joliet, afterwards famous as an explorer in the West. He THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 35 had been sent by the Canadian Government to explore the copper mineson Lake Superior, but had failed, and was on his way back to gave the missionaries a map of the country he had explored in thelake region, together with an account of the condition of the Indians inthat quarter. This induced the priests to determine on leaving theexpedition and going to Lake Superior. LaSalle warned them that theJesuits were probably occupying that field, and that
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