LA SALLE, SIEUR DE, early connection with the Jesuits, 225; comes to Canada, 225; goes exploring, 226; becomes a supporter of Frontenac, 227; goes to France and wins the King, 228; in command of Fort Frontenac, 229; his ambition, 229; visits France and procures extraordinary commission, 230; begins his great exploration, 231, builds stronghold at mouth of Niagara River, 232; builds first vessel launched on Upper Lakes, 233; sails on his great enterprise, 234; the "Griffin," 235; goes in canoes down Illinois River, 238; allies himself with the Illinois, 239; builds Fort Crevecoeur, 240; reaches the Mississippi, 245; starts for the Gulf of Mexico, 250; adventures by the way, 251 _et seq._, reaches the Gulf, 254; bestows the name Louisiana, 254; hardships and hostility on return voyage, 255; goes to France, 257; appears on coast of Texas, 261, his purpose, 262; his difficulties and his dilemma, 263 _et seq._; mistake of his pilots, 264; loss of his vessels, 264, 265; loss of men by sickness and Indians, 266; builds fort at Lavaca, 266; vainly seeks the Mississippi, 266 _et seq._; sets out for Canada, 272; assassinated, 275; what he had achieved, 275; by whom his plan was carried out, 278 _et seq._ LAUDONNIERE, RENE DE, an officer under Ribaut, 68; goes in command of a second expedition to Florida, 77; seizes Outina, 86; releases him, 87; declines proposal of Hawkins to carry him and his men home, 88; buys a vessel from him, 89; escapes the massacre, 94. LAVACA, Texas, site of La Salle's fort, 266. LE CARON, friar, discoverer of Lake Huron, 133, 149. LE JEUNE, an early French missionary, winter's experience with hunting-party of Algonquins, 150. LENAPE, an Algonquin tribe, 7. LERY, BARON DE, an early adventurer, left cattle on Sable Island, 103. LEWIS AND CLARK sent out to explore route to Pacific, 321; winter among Mandans, 321, note. LIPANS, an offshoot of Athapascan stock, 7. LONG HOUSE, THE, Indian name of Iroquois League, 28. LOUISIANA, the name given by La Salle, 254. MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER, discovers Mackenzie River, 318; reaches the Pacific, 320. MANDANS, Indian tribe, first visited by Verendrye, 317; by Lewis and Clark, 321, note; by George Catlin, 322; his enthusiasm about them, 323; his peculiar theory of their origin, 326; their singular dwellings, 325; story of a Mandan's revenge, 323. MANHATTAN ISLAND first occupied by Dutch as a trading-post, 130, note. MANITOU, Indian for "spirit," 126. MARQUETTE, FATHER, missionary and explorer. _See_ Joliet. MARRIAGE must not be between two persons of same clan, 22. MASCOUTINS, western Algonquins, 174. MASKOKI, a native stock; its tribes and its range, 9. MASSACRE ISLAND (Dauphin Island), why so called, 280. MATAGORDA BAY, Texas, scene of La Salle's landing, 261. MATANZAS INLET, French Huguenots butchered there by Menendez, 95. MAUNDEVILLE, SIR JOHN, story of fountain of immortality, 78, note. MAY, RIVER OF, now called the St. John's, 67.