A first book in American history with European beginnings . the Griffon and take them back to Niagara,where they would find men to carry them to they were to come back again with the ship. Soon a September morn-ing the Griffon fired aparting shot and setsail for Niagara. La Salle, with four-teen men and fourcanoes, went down thelake to the St. JosephRiver. Here he builta fort and waited tillDecember, hoping forthe return of the Grif-fon; but no Griffoncame. Finally he senttwo men back to seekher while he with theothers made his wayup the St. JosephRiver, until they came to the po
A first book in American history with European beginnings . the Griffon and take them back to Niagara,where they would find men to carry them to they were to come back again with the ship. Soon a September morn-ing the Griffon fired aparting shot and setsail for Niagara. La Salle, with four-teen men and fourcanoes, went down thelake to the St. JosephRiver. Here he builta fort and waited tillDecember, hoping forthe return of the Grif-fon; but no Griffoncame. Finally he senttwo men back to seekher while he with theothers made his wayup the St. JosephRiver, until they came to the portage, or path, which ledto the headwaters of the Illinois River. La Salle now went some distance down this river, andthere built a strong fort. Since his ship was gone, he re-solved to build another. In six weeks the ship was halfdone. But there were no anchors or cables or was nothing to be done but to go back for thesethings to Fort Frontenac, a distance of one thousand Salle was not a man to hesitate at a little journey like 145. Robert La Salle. A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY this; so one day in March, with two canoes, an Indianhunter, and four Frenchmen, he started up the river. It was a fearful journey. Sometimes pushing thecanoes through the drifting ice, sometimes walking over-land for many miles and carrying the canoes on theirshoulders, sometimes in danger from the Iroquois, some-
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