| of Parkman’s _La Salle_, Champlain edition, vol. i. | | | | [11] La Salle often prophesied, says Parkman (_La Salle_, i, | | 149), that he “would make the griffin fly above the crows,” _i. | | e._, that he would make the influence of Frontenac triumph over | | that of the Jesuits. | | | | [12] Green Bay was a mission among several Indian tribes of Lake | | Michigan, established by the Jesuit fathers, Allouez and Dablon, | | 1669–70. | | | | [13] By the terms of his patent from the King, this was clearly | | an infringement of the monopoly belonging to the Montreal colony, | | and was subsequently used against him by his enemies, as well as | | being the primal cause of his loss of the _Griffin_. | | | | [14] He clearly foresaw what this journey involved, for as he | | wrote to one of his associates in his enterprise, “though the | | thaws of approaching Spring greatly increased the difficulty of | | the way, interrupted as it was everywhere by marshes and rivers, | | to say nothing of the length of the journey, which is about 500 | | leagues in a direct line, and the danger of meeting Indians of | | four or five different nations through whose country we were | | to pass, as well as an Iroquois army which we knew was coming | | that way; though we must suffer all the time from hunger, sleep | | on the open ground, and often without food; watch by night and | | march by day, loaded with baggage such as blankets, clothing, | | kettle, hatchet, gun, powder, lead, and skins to make moccasins; | | sometimes pushing through thickets, sometimes climbing rocks | | covered with ice and snow, sometimes wading whole days through | | marshes where the water was waist-deep, or even more, at a | | season when the snow was not entirely melted—though I knew of | | this, it did not prevent me from resolving to go on foot to Fort | | Frontenac, to learn for myself what had become of my vessel, and | | bring back the things we needed.”—Parkman’s _La Salle_ (Champlain | | edit.), i, 189–90. | | | | [15] A Jesuit mission, established among the Hurons, 1670–72, by | | Father Marquette. | | | | [16] The white man’s name, “The Father of Waters,” applied to | | this river, is a rather grandiloquent paraphrase of the Indian’s |