Mr. Davis does not find any consideration of the verity of the story till Samuel Engel discussed it in his _Mémoires et observations géographiques_, published at Lausanne in 1765, which had a chart showing what he conceived to be the route of the Indian, as Le Page du Pratz had traced it, in tracking him from the Missouri to the streams which feed the Columbia River. The story was later examined by Mr. Andrew Stewart in _The Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec_, i. 198 (1829), who accepted the tale as truthful; and Greenhow, in his _History of Oregon_ (Boston, 1844, p. 145), rejects as improbable only the ending as Dumont gives it. In 1881, when M. de Quatrefage rehearsed the story in the _Revue d’anthropologie_, vol. iv., he argued that the bearded men must have been Japanese. It was this paper of the distinguished French anthropologist which incited Mr. Davis to the study of the narrative; and it is by his discrimination that we are reminded how the story grew to have the suspicious termination, after Le Page had communicated it to Dumont; so that in Mr. Davis’s judgment one is “forced to the unwilling conclusion that the original story of the savage suffered changes at Le Page’s hands.” The story has since been examined by H. H. Bancroft in his _Northwest Coast_, i. 599 _et seq._, who sees no reason to doubt the truth of the narrative. There is an account of the early maps of the country west of Lake Superior and of the headwaters of the Mississippi in Winchell’s _Geological Survey of Minnesota, Final Report_, vol. i., with a fac-simile of one of 1737. Between 1730 and 1740 Verendrye and his companions explored the country west and northwest of Lake Superior, and reached the Rocky Mountains. Mills, _Boundaries of Ontario_, p. 75, says he failed to find in the _Moniteur_, September and November, 1857, the account of Verendrye’s discoveries by Margry, to which Garneau refers. CARTOGRAPHY OF LOUISIANA AND THE MISSISSIPPI BASIN UNDER THE FRENCH DOMINATION. BY THE EDITOR. THE original spelling of the name Mississippi, the nearest approach to the Algonquin word, is _Mêché Sébè_,[123] a form still commonly used by the Louisiana creoles. Tonty suggested _Miche Sepe_; Father Laval, _Michisepe_, which by Father Labatt was softened into _Misisipi_. Marquette added the first _s_ in _Missisipi_, and some other explorer a second in _Mississipi_, as it is spelled in France to-day. No one knows who added a second _p_ in _Mississippi_, for it was generally spelled with one _p_ when the United States bought Louisiana.[124] In Vol. IV. of the present _History_ the earliest maps of the Mississippi Basin are enumerated, and fac-similes or sketches of the following may be seen in that volume:— 1672-73 (p. 221). An anonymous map of the course of the Mississippi, which is also to be found in Breese’s _Early Hist. of Illinois_. Other early maps, without date, are noted in Vol. IV. at pp. 206, 215.