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Upon a small lake, which he named Lake Julia, he conferred the honor of being the head of the great river, while it seemed to him that the "shades of Marco Polo, of Columbus, of Americus Vespucius, of the Cabots, of Verazani, of the Zenos, and various others, appeared present, and joyfully assisting at this high and solemn ceremony". After a journey of great suffering he was welcomed at Fort Snelling wearing a hat made of the bark of a tree, and clothes of skins.
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