La Salle enjoyed their dances, and Hennepin, as their spiritual guide, kept them under restraint. This, at least, is the Recollect story of the origin of La Salle’s enmity for the missionary. From Quebec Hennepin continued his missionary wanderings, sometimes to remote stations, and at one time, in the spring of 1677, among the Iroquois,—not going, however, to Albany, as has been sometimes asserted. (Cf. Brodhead’s _New York_, ii. 307; _Hist. Mag._ x. 268.) Next he accompanied La Salle in his explorations west. Of Niagara he offers us the earliest picture in his 1697 publication,—of which a reduced fac-simile is here given. Others are in Gay’s _Pop. Hist. U. S._, ii. 511; Shea’s _Hennepin_, p. 379, and in his _Le Clercq_, ii. 112; and in the _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, vol. ii. no. 561. The original cut was repeated in the later editions and translations of Hennepin. These Falls had been indicated on Champlain’s map, in 1632, with the following note: “Sault d’eau au bout du Sault [Lac] Sainct Louis fort hault, où plusiers sortes de poissons descendans s’estourdissent.” This was from the natives’ accounts. Ragueneau, in the _Relation_ of 1648, was the first to describe them, though they had been known by report to the Jesuits some years earlier (Parkman’s _Jesuits_, p. 142). Lalemant, in 1641, called them _Onguiaahra_. Ragueneau gave them no definite altitude, but called them of “frightful height.” Hennepin, in his 1683 book, calls them five hundred feet, and in 1697 six hundred feet high, and describes a side-shoot on their western verge which does not now exist. Sanson, in his map of 1657, had somewhat simplified Ragueneau’s name into _Ongiara_; but Hennepin gives the name in its present form. There is a great variety in the early spelling of the name. (See _Canadian Journal_, 1870, p. 385.) The word is of Iroquois origin, and its proper phonetic spelling is very like the form now in use (Parkman, _La Salle_, p. 126; O’Callaghan, _Col. Doc., index_, 465). Hennepin had also been anticipated in a brief notice by Gendron, in his _Quelques Particularites_, etc., 1659. Hennepin’s account is also translated in the _Mag. of Amer. Hist._, v. 47. His engraving was reproduced, in 1702, in Campanius’ work on New Sweden. [Illustration]