Maine, State of, the whole burden of war falls upon, i. 16; an unbroken forest, i. 34; its beasts of prey, i. 36; the Indian tribes of, i. 36; the settlements of, i. 39; a dependency of Massachusetts, i. 40; characteristics of the people of, i. 40; the Abenaki tribes of, i. 101; the settlements again inhabited, i. 221; ii. 260. Makisabie, war-chief of the Pottawattamies, i. 282. Malicite Indians, the, i. 220; join Duvivier’s expedition against Annapolis, ii. 61; ii. 170. Mallet, the brothers, in Colorado and New Mexico, i. 367, 368. Malplaquet, battle of, ii. 9. Mandans, the, ii. 15; 390 La Vérendrye among, ii. 16, 17; decline in numbers, ii. 17; visited by Prince Maximilian, ii. 17; villages of, ii. 17, 18; visited by Captains Lewis and Clark, ii. 17; persecuted by the Sioux and the small-pox, ii. 17; customs of, ii. 19; Pierre and Chevalier La Vérendrye among, ii. 20; Bodmer and Catlin among, ii. 20; origin of the name, ii. 21; lodges of, ii. 21; the “medicine lodge,” ii. 21. Mandan villages, the, i. 367; ii. 17, 18. Mandeville, M. de, i. 309. Manitoba, ii. 10; fur-trade of, i. 37. Manitoba, Lake, ii. 14. Mann, Fort, i. 357. Mantannes, the, see _Mandans, the_. Maquas, the, see _Caughnawagas_. Marblehead, ii. 68, 85. March, Colonel John, at Falmouth, i. 45; attacked by the Indians, i. 45; attacks the Pequawkets, i. 50, 56; commander-in-chief of the expedition against Port Royal, i. 125; characteristics of, i. 126; ill-fitted for his position, i. 126; his disorderly camp, i. 127; his failure, i. 129. Marcy, i. 357. Marest, Father, the Jesuit, aversion of Cadillac for, i. 19; i. 30; at Fort St. Louis, i. 327; i. 331, 350. Mareuil, the Jesuit, at Onondaga, i. 138; on the destruction of the Jesuit mission-house at Onondaga, i. 139. Marganne, François de, see _La Valterie, Sieur de_. Margry, Pierre, i. 18, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 354, 355, 356, 358, 360, 366, 368; ii. 12, 25, 36; on the achievements of the family of La Vérendrye, ii. 42. Marguerite, see _French, Martha_, and _Stebbins, Abigail_. Maricourt, i. 11. Marie Françoise, see _French, Freedom_. Marie Jeanne, see _Hurst, Sarah_. “Marie-Joseph,” the, i. 194. Marin, a French trader, i. 343, 344. Marin, ii. 126, 131, 185, 194, 196; attacks Saratoga, ii. 210; ii. 294, 295, 300. “Marin,” the, i. 300, 302. Marlborough, town of, attacked by the French and Indians, i. 99.