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Another hour's thinking may help me to find some way of escape from the Sieur de Roberval's wrath." "I fear, good Etienne, he will never forgive you if his plot miscarries. He is not a man to break his promises. Perhaps we may see an easier way out of it than by means of a rope. Who commands the guard to-night?" "Pierre Dablon." "Would he let you pass without doubting your word?"
While Fathers Garreau and Mesnard found death among the Algonquins on the coasts of Lake Superior, the Sulpicians Dollier and Gallinée were planting the cross on the shores of Lake Erie; Father Claude Allouez was preaching the gospel beyond Lake Superior; Fathers Dablon, Marquette, and Druillètes were establishing the mission of Sault Ste.
The French were grouped about a cross on the top of a knoll near the rapids, and the great throng of savages, "many-tinted" and adorned in the mode of the forest, sat or stood in wider circle. Father Dablon sanctified a great wooden cross. It was raised to its place while the inner circle sang Vexilla Regis.
Dablon and Allouez had already touched the outskirts of this country, and their success was an earnest of great things in store. The winter passed slowly for Marquette; but at length, on May 17, 1673, the explorer and the missionary with five assistants a feeble band to risk a plunge into the unknown launched their canoes and headed westward.
Islands within a stone's throw of the settlement, rocky drops in a boiling current, vividly showed their rich foliage of pines. On one of these islands Father Dablon and Father Marquette had built their first mission chapel; and though they afterwards removed it to the mainland, the old tracery of foundation stones could still be seen. The mountains of Lake Superior showed like a cloud.
THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK HARBOR BY VERAZZANO. Verazzano's Own Account THE DEATH OF DE SOTO. By One of De Soto's Companions DRAKE'S VISIT TO CALIFORNIA. By One of Drake's Companions THE DEATH OF MARQUETTE. By Father Claude Dablon THE DISCOVERY OF NIAGARA FALLS. By Father Louis Hennepin
Five Jesuit Fathers were of the number, among them Fathers Chaumonot and Dablon.
Save for Le Moyne, Chaumonot, and Dablon, these colonists were the first whites to ascend the St Lawrence between Montreal and Lake Ontario; the first to toil up against the current of those swift waters and to portage past the turbulent rapids; the first to view the varied beauty of the lordly river, its broad stretches of sparkling blue waters, its fairyland mazes of islands, and its great forests rising everywhere from the shore to the horizon.
Chaumonot was accompanied by Father Dablon, the Black Kettle, now famous among his Onondaga brothers as the one who had crossed the evil waters, and two friendly Oneida chiefs. There ensued a prodigious harangue; but at the close of it the smile on Chaumonot's face signified that he had won his argument. "You are free, my sons," he said.
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