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The St. Lawrence had been opened, the first two of the Great Lakes had been reached, and explorer and priest were already on the edge of that farther valley of the "Missipi," which we are to enter in the next chapter. It was exactly a hundred years, according to some authorities, after Jacques Cartier opened and passed through the door of the St.
They had pleasant interviews with the Indians that were hunting the roebuck and buffalo in this land of rich grasses. Their canoes struggled through the muddy current, which the Missouri gave as its tribute to the Missipi, passed the low marshy shores of the Ohio, and at last came near the mouth of the Arkansas, where they landed at an Indian village which the natives called Akamsea.
His roving inclinations were qualified by a cool, collected brain, which carried him safely through many a perilous adventure. He had for his companion Father Marquette, who was then stationed at the mission of St. Ignace, and had gathered from the Indians at his western missions especially at La Pointe on Lake Superior valuable information respecting the "great water" then called the "Missipi."
Ignace they found themselves "with a great and inexpressible joy" to quote Marquette's words on the rapid current of a river which they recognised as the Missipi.
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