[64] The manuscript here referred to was found in 1869 in Paris, among a collection of similar material, and purchased by the Library of Congress. It consists of 452 pages, antique writing, and was first published in Margry’s DÉCOUVERTES, (ETC.), in French. Portions of it have been printed by the MINN. HIST. SOC. COLL., Vol. III, Part I, and the whole work included by B. F. French, in translation, in his HIST. COLL. OF LOUISIANA. [65] Edward Duffield Neill, born Philadelphia, August 9, 1823, died St. Paul, September 26, 1893. Presbyterian minister in St. Paul, 1849-60; private secretary to President Johnson, 1865-69; consul to Dublin, 1869-70 and later president of Macalester College, St. Paul. Published extensively in American history and his HISTORY OF MINNESOTA (last edition, 1887), is considered of highest authority. See Dr. Alexander Nicolas De Menil’s LITERATURE OF THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY (St. Louis, 1904), for a sketch of this writer and of many others whose names are prominent in the history of the middle west. [66] Le Sueur was commandant at Chequamegon for a considerable time, beginning in 1693. During that year he erected two forts, one near the present site of Red Wing, Minnesota, and one on Madeline Island, believing this necessary in order to keep open the Bois Brulé and St. Croix trading route. See WIS. HIST. COLL., Vol. XVI, page 173. For a sketch of Chagaouamegong (now corruptly written Chequamegon), see the excellent little volume by Rev. Chrysostom Verwyst, O. S. F., entitled MISSIONARY LABORS OF FATHERS MARQUETTE, MENARD, AND ALLOUEZ IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR REGION, 1886, pp. 181-182, also WIS. HIST. COLL., Vol. I, which gives the Indian nomenclature, showing the early form, Chegoiwegon. [67] A mistake taken bodily from Neill’s HISTORY OF MINNESOTA, first edition, which was corrected in a later edition to “Fort Perrot on the west side of the Mississippi, on a prairie, just below the expansion of the stream known as Lake Pepin.” [68] Nicolas Perrot, one of the most prominent of the early voyageurs and very well acquainted with the northwestern tribes, gained their confidence and good-will from the beginning. He was born in 1644 and employed by the Jesuits from 1660-65, later connecting himself with the Ottawa fur-trade. He is probably better known, however, as an explorer, and in 1685 was employed by the government of Canada as commandant in the northwest. During his last years he composed his MEMOIRS which remained in manuscript until 1864, at which time they were published with copious notes by Tailhan. Perrot died August 13, 1717. See Stickney, PARKMAN CLUB PAPERS, Milwaukee, 1896. [69] Pierre de Fevre de La Barre, successor of Frontenac, as governor of Canada, and in turn followed by Denonville. An ignorant and by no means worthy occupant of the position. [70] A small, square-ended barge equipped with both oars and sail. [71] Nineteen men. La Harpe’s NARRATIVE. Penicaud. [72] _Ibid_. Gives the date as 29th.