. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . 2. Work of the Catholic Missionaries—Catholic mis-sionaries pushed their way into the wilderness, to convertthe savages as well as to explore the country. In this workthey endured the most dreadful hardships, and some ofthem were pnt to death in the most cruel manner by thebarbarous tribes whom they had come to save. lu 1634,these devoted men established a missionary station nearLake Iroquois, or Georgian Bay, as it is now of the red men
. A junior class history of the United States; to which are added the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States .. . 2. Work of the Catholic Missionaries—Catholic mis-sionaries pushed their way into the wilderness, to convertthe savages as well as to explore the country. In this workthey endured the most dreadful hardships, and some ofthem were pnt to death in the most cruel manner by thebarbarous tribes whom they had come to save. lu 1634,these devoted men established a missionary station nearLake Iroquois, or Georgian Bay, as it is now of the red men listened to their pious words, andwere baptized. 3- In 1660, they had traversed this region as far as Lake Map Questions.—(Map, p. 100.) Where is Quebec? Port Royal? Annapolis?The Bay of Fiindy ? Louisbuig ? (Map, p. 252.) Natchez ? New Orleans ? Detroit(Map, p. 200) ? Text Questions.—2. Efforts of the Catholic missionaries ? Their hardships ?What was done in 1634 ? 3. What had been accomplished in 1660 ? The Algonquinsand Five Nations ? When and by whom was St. Marys settled ? What rumorj-eached Marquette ? 9i il GEOon-mlch. ;ntryIEast of the MississirEiAS OCCUPIED BY THE INDIANS 10 Wasliliigton 1668] FRENCH COLONIES AND WARS 97 Superior, and liad established stations at various Algonquin Indians were friendly to them, but the Five Nations, being at war with the Algonquins, werebitterly hostile, and inflicted on them the most shockingcruelties, in 16G8, St. Marys was settled by Marquette{mar-lei) and others ; and soon after this, the same mis-sionary, having heard from the natives of a great river tothe west of this region, de-termined to explore it. 4. Discovery and Ex-ploration of the Missis-sippi.—This project wascarried out in JG73. Mar-quette, with Joliet, a fur-trader, reached the GreatRiver, and floated downupon its waters in theirbirch-bark canoes, belowthe mouth of the Arkan-
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