Boundary Disputes.--Outposts of Canada.--The Earlier and Later Jesuits.--Religion and Politics.--The Norridgewocks and their Missionary.--A Hollow Peace.--Disputed Land Claims.--Council at Georgetown.--Attitude of Rale.--Minister and Jesuit.--The Indians waver.--An Outbreak.--Covert War.--Indignation against Rale.--War declared.--Governor and Assembly.--Speech of Samuel Sewall.--Penobscots attack Fort St. George.--Reprisal.--Attack on Norridgewock.--Death of Rale 212 CHAPTER XI. 1724, 1725. LOVEWELL'S FIGHT. Vaudreuil and Dummer.--Embassy to Canada.--Indians intractable.--Treaty of Peace.--The Pequawkets.--John Lovewell.--A Hunting Party.--Another Expedition.--The Ambuscade.--The Fight.--Chaplain Frye: his Fate.--The Survivors.--Susanna Rogers 250 CHAPTER XII. 1712. THE OUTAGAMIES AT DETROIT. The West and the Fur-trade.--New York and Canada.--Indian Population.--The Firebrands of the West.--Detroit in 1712.--Dangerous Visitors.--Suspense.--Timely Succors.--The Outagamies attacked: their Desperate Position.--Overtures.--Wavering Allies.--Conduct of Dubuisson.--Escape of the Outagamies.--Pursuit and Attack.--Victory and Carnage 272 CHAPTER XIII. 1697-1750. LOUISIANA. The Mississippi to be occupied.--English Rivalry.--Iberville.--Bienville.--Huguenots.--Views of Louis XIV.--Wives for the Colony.--Slaves.--La Mothe-Cadillac.--Paternal Government.--Crozat's Monopoly.--Factions.--The Mississippi Company.--New Orleans.--The Bubble bursts.--Indian Wars.--The Colony firmly established.--The two Heads of New France 298 CHAPTER XIV. 1700-1732. THE OUTAGAMIE WAR. The Western Posts.--Detroit.--The Illinois.--Perils of the West.--The Outagamies.--Their Turbulence.--English Instigation.--Louvigny's Expedition.--Defeat of Outagamies.--Hostilities renewed.--Lignery's Expedition.--Outagamies attacked by Villiers; by Hurons and Iroquois.--La Butte des Morts.--The Sacs and Foxes 326 CHAPTER XV. 1697-1741. FRANCE IN THE FAR WEST. French Explorers.--Le Sueur on the St. Peter.--Canadians on the Missouri.--Juchereau de Saint-Denis.--Benard de la Harpe on Red River.--Adventures of Du Tisne.--Bourgmont visits the Comanches.--The Brothers Mallet in Colorado and New Mexico.--Fabry de la Bruyere 346 CHAPTER I. 1700-1713. EVE OF WAR. The Spanish Succession.--Influence of Louis XIV. on History.--French Schemes of Conquest in America.--New York.--Unfitness of the Colonies for War.--The Five Nations.--Doubt and Vacillation.--The Western Indians.--Trade and Politics.