PORTAGE, CITY OF, site described by Jonathan Carver, 174, note. POTTAWATTAMIES, a friendly Algonquin tribe, 248. POWHATANS, an Algonquin tribe, 7. PUEBLO INDIANS, THE, a native stock; some of its tribes, 10. QUEBEC (Indian, Kebec, "The Narrows"), founded by Champlain, 123, slow growth of, 142. QUINIPISSAS, Indian tribe above site of New Orleans, attack La Salle, 256. RADISSON, PIERRE ESPRIT, comes to Canada, 191; his adventure and capture, 191; his escape and re-capture, 196, his second escape, 198, why he is not better known, 200; starts for the Upper Lakes, 201; perilous adventures by the way, 201; enters Lake Superior, 206; describes the "Pictured Rocks," 208; builds a fort on Lake Superior, 211; describes a famine, 212; witnesses interesting games, 218; brings to Montreal an enormous canoe-fleet loaded with skins, 221; offers his services to the English King, 221. RIBAUT, CAPTAIN JEAN, his first expedition to America, 67; comes, with large colony, to Fort Caroline, 89; goes with his whole force to attack Menendez, at St. Augustine, 90; is overtaken by hurricane, driven down the coast and wrecked, 91; crews massacred, 91 _et seq._ RIBOURDE, FATHER, murdered, 247. RICHELIEU OR SOREL RIVER, route followed by Champlain, 115. ROBERVAL, SIEUR DE, vainly attempts to colonize Canada, 63. ROCHE, MARQUIS DE LA, story of his disastrous venture, 102. ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE, western boundary of Dakota-Sioux, 10; discovered, 318. SABLE ISLAND, southeast of Nova Scotia, 102. SACS AND FOXES, Algonquin tribes, 7; slaughter of, 173. SACHEMS, who they were, 31. ST. ANTHONY, FALLS OF, discovered and named, 306. ST. AUGUSTINE founded, 90. ST. CROIX RIVER, Mouth of, place of Champlain's first settlement, 107. ST. JOHN'S BLUFF, site of first fort on the St. John's River, 79. ST. LAWRENCE, Gulf and River, why so named, 57. SAULT STE. MARIE, furthest western post of French missionaries, 45; a missionary's description of, 206, note. SAVANNAH RIVER, southern boundary of Algonquins, 7. SEMINOLES, a Maskoki tribe, 9. SENEGAS, a tribe of the Iroquois League, 9. SEVEN CITIES OF CIBOLA, 69, note. SHAWNEES, an Algonquin tribe, 7. SHOSHONEES, a native stock; its range, 10. SIX NATIONS, THE, what tribes included, 9. STADACONE, Indian village, near site of Quebec, 58. "STARVED ROCK," probable site of La Salle's Fort St. Louis, 256. SUSQUEHANNOCKS, a Huron-Iroquois tribe, 9. TADOUSSAC, early post, well situated for fur-trade, 121. TAENSAS INDIANS visited by La Salle, 251; described, 253, note. THIMAGOAS, an Indian tribe in Florida, 80. THREE RIVERS, one of earliest French posts on the St. Lawrence, 191. THWAITES, DR. REUBEN GOLD, authority on colonial history, his judgment as to Radisson, Preface; recites tradition of slaughter of Sacs and Foxes, 173. TONTY, HENRI DE, La Salle's faithful lieutenant, 237; trying experiences in the Illinois country, 245 _et seq._; his efforts to rescue La Salle and his men, 276 _et seq._