At the head of the rescuing party was one Du Lhut, or Duluth, for whom the city of Duluth is named, as Lake Pepin is also said to have been named for another of this party. Thus, in St. Anthony's Falls, Lake Pepin, and Duluth we have a group of names commemorating the men of La Salle's exploring party, as well as the exploration itself. All the Frenchmen now returned to the Sioux villages at Mille Lac together. They finally made their way back to the French settlements by the Wisconsin and Green Bay route, as Marquette had done before them, and the Sioux[8] also for many generations had travelled to the great lake. FOOTNOTES [1] FATHER LOUIS HENNEPIN, a Récollet, or Franciscan friar, published his _Description of Louisiana_, 1683, with subsequent editions, under various titles, 1697, 1698, etc. While his exaggerations make it difficult to separate what is true from what is false, yet his writings are an indispensable part of the History of the Great West. [2] GET RID OF HIM, by exposing him to be scalped among hostile Indians. [3] SIOUX, properly Dacotahs, may be nominally divided in two great bodies by the Mississippi River. Those living on the east side were Eastern Sioux, those on the west, Western Sioux. Their country reached from the westernmost tributaries of the Mississippi to Lake Superior. In power, they were to the West what the Iroquois were to the East—the scourge of weaker nations. The Sioux ceded their lands east of the Mississippi to the United States, in 1837, living on the St. Peter's till the massacres of 1862-63 drove them thence. [4] ST. PAUL, nine miles below the Falls of St. Anthony, capital city of Minnesota, settled about 1840; Benjamin Gervais, the first settler. [5] FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY. St. Anthony of Padua was Hennepin's patron saint. The Sioux were in the habit of hanging buffalo-robes on the trees as offerings to the spirit of the waters. Minneapolis is the growth of the water-power of these falls, having increased from 2,564 in 1860, to 46,000 in 1880. [6] LAKE PEPIN, a broadening of the Mississippi, about twenty-five miles long. There is a pretty Indian legend connected with Maiden's Rock in the lake, told in Mrs. Eastman's Legends of the Sioux. [7] LA SALLE asserts that the Jesuits told the men he had engaged to do this that the friar had been killed, so preventing them from going. [8] THE SIOUX ALSO. Recall the fact stated earlier, that Marquette fell in with the Sioux at or about Green Bay. THE LOST COLONY: ST. LOUIS OF TEXAS.