. Public school methods . believed that it emptiedinto the Vermilion Sea, or what is now known as the Gulf of Indians entreated Marquette to come and live among themand teach them to worship the same God as the Black-robe, the nameby which the priests were everywhere known among the before he could carry out his plan to visit the Illinois, the Hurons,among whom the mission was located, were attacked by the Sioux,defeated and driven eastward. Marquette went with them andestablished a new mission at Point Saint Ignace, where he remainedtwo years. However, during this
. Public school methods . believed that it emptiedinto the Vermilion Sea, or what is now known as the Gulf of Indians entreated Marquette to come and live among themand teach them to worship the same God as the Black-robe, the nameby which the priests were everywhere known among the before he could carry out his plan to visit the Illinois, the Hurons,among whom the mission was located, were attacked by the Sioux,defeated and driven eastward. Marquette went with them andestablished a new mission at Point Saint Ignace, where he remainedtwo years. However, during this time his thought was with theIllinois and he prayed without ceasing that he might be sent to , vague rumors of the great river reached the Frenchat Montreal, and the governor of Canada, Count Frontenac, sentLouis Joliet, a fur trader, to explore the country and learn wjietheror not such a river was there; for although De Soto had discoveredthe Mississippi nearly one hundred forty years before, these French-. MARQUETTE AND JOLIET The Men and Their Route* Language and Grammar 291 men knew nothing of the discovery. JoHet arrived at Saint Ignace,where he found Marquette, who had been chosen to accompany him. The expedition, consisting of five men, with a supply of smokedmeat and com, was loaded into two birchbark canoes and set forthfrom Saint Ignace May 17, 1673, They crossed the Straits of Macki-naw, followed the shore of Lake ^lichigan until they reached theMenominee River, which they ascended to the village of the Menomineeor White Rice Indians. When these Indians learned of the destina-tion of the expedition, they endeavored to persuade ^larquette andhis followers to turn back, assuring them that the tribes to the Southwere ferocious and that they put every stranger to death withoutany cause or provocation. They added that the river was hauntedby demons whose roar could be heard at a great distance, and whodestroyed everything that came within their reach. It is
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