Pekitanoui")* with the Mississippi, they found three villages of the Illinois. They remained here some days, and again embarking, descended the Mississippi as far as the Arkansas. The priorvisions and munitions beginning to fail them, and believing it... Annual Report and Collections - Seite 991857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1844 - 671 Seiten
...sunn- days, and again embarking, descended the Mississippi as far as the Arkansas. Their provisions and munitions beginning to fail them, and believing...feeling perfectly satisfied from the course of the river th.it it discharged itself into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Gulf of California, they retraced... | |
| William Wallace Beach - 1877 - 524 Seiten
...some days, and again embarking, descended the Mississippi as far as the Arkansas. Their provisions and munitions beginning to fail them, and believing...river to the portage, and thence into Lake Michigan. Marquette remained at the mission of the Miamis, at Chicago, and alternately attended this and the... | |
| William Wallace Beach - 1877 - 490 Seiten
...some days, and again embarking, descended the Mississippi as far as the Arkansas. Their provisions and munitions beginning to fail them, and believing...course of the river that it discharged itself into the Q-ulf of Mexico and not into the Gulf of California, they retraced their steps to the mouth of the... | |
| Frederic Austin Ogg - 1904 - 696 Seiten
...purposes to absolute knowledge. They had at least established the unwelcome fact that its outlet was into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Gulf of California — and hence the China Sea — as had been hoped. In view of the loss of Joliet's narratives it is... | |
| May Louise Harvey - 1911 - 364 Seiten
...journey as far as the mouth of the Arkansas River. They were now confident that the Great River emptied into the Gulf 'of Mexico and not into the Gulf of California, and being very atnxious to get home before winter, they decided to turn northward. But paddling against... | |
| Burton Egbert Stevenson - 2001 - 416 Seiten
...Missouri, the Ohio, and finally, having gone far enough to convince themselves that the river emptied into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Gulf of California, they turned about and reached Green Bay again in September, having paddled more than 2,500 miles. Marquette,... | |
| Wisconsin - 1857 - 560 Seiten
...the Arkansas. The priorTisions and munitions beginning to fail them, and believing it imprudent lo advance further into a country whose inhabitants were...river to the Portage, and thence into Lake Michigan. MARQUETTE remained at the mission of the Miamis, at Chicago, and alternately attended this and the... | |
| Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - 1899 - 588 Seiten
...for France at the mouth of the Mississippi, when he discovered later on that the Mississippi flowed into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Gulf of California. We cannot follow him in his long connection with the Illinois Indians and Fort St. Louis. "We must... | |
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