St. Mary’s Fall, 200 St. Philip River, 213 “Starved Rock”, 15, 18, 24 Stores they had, 98 Strange adventure, 102 Sulpitians, 2, 3, 4, 5, 26 Superior, Lake, 4, 12 Sweet water from a tree, 198 Talon (Intendant), 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 43 Teao Indians, 127 Teissier, 138, 160, 161, 188, 201 Tessalon, Village of, 200 Texas, 108 Theauremets Indians, 126 Thecamenes Indians, 126 Thibault, Sieur, 54, 99 Thick woods, 119 Third landing, 76 Tonti, Hendri de, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 47, 48, 49, 176, 177, 188, 190, 196, 197, 202, 203 comes to Fort Lewis, 195 ’s mistake in account of voyage, 64 Tohaka Indians, 126 Tohan Indians, 127 Tonningua, Village, 182 Toriman officers, 181 Village, 181 Tortuga Island, 59 Trade Wind, 57 Travel continued, 197 Tsepehoen Indians, 127 Tsera Indians, 127 Two men killed, 115 West Indies, 210 Wild fowl, 120 fruit, 186 swine, 63 Veracruz, 206, 207, 209, 211 Vermilion Sea, 3 Vespusius, Americus, 23 Zenobius, Father, 62, 117, 152, 203 [Illustration: (Map)] +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | FOOTNOTES | | | | [1] “The Romance of the French and Spanish Explorers;” an article | | in _Harper’s Magazine_, for February, 1882, by John Fiske. | | | | [2] “The Great La Salle,” an article in _Harper’s Magazine_, for | | February, 1905, by Henry Loomis Nelson, L. H. D. Also Parkman’s | | _Pioneers of New France_, Champlain edition, ii, 258, 260. | | | | [3] This feudal estate, some eight miles from Montreal, bears at | | the present day the name of La Chine (China), modernly spelled | | Lachine, which was said to have been applied to it in derision of | | his first fruitless voyage. | | | | [4] It must be remembered that the voyage of the priest | | Marquette, and the fur-trader Joliet, in 1673, had reached the | | Mississippi, down which they sailed as far as the mouth of the | | Arkansas. At that point, thinking that they had sufficiently | | established the fact that the waters of the Mississippi | | discharged, not into the Gulf of California, but into the Gulf of | | Mexico (although they were then really only within seven hundred | | miles of its mouth) they returned to Canada and so reported. | | | | [5] One account describes his route as being by way of Lake | | Chautauqua into the valley of the Alleghany, thence _via_ the |