inity.

[124-6] The name _puans_ in French signifies _ill-smelling_.

[125-7] There are no bustards in North America. The writer probably saw
wild geese with the ducks.

[125-8] It is not known certainly where this village was located, but it
may have been near the present city of Berlin or Princeton.

[125-9] Father Allouez arrived at the Sault Sainte Marie in 1668, and
was engaged in missionary work between lakes Superior and Michigan. It
is probable that he had visited the Indians the year before.

[126-10] The Fox and Wisconsin river systems approach within a mile and
a half of each other at Portage, Wisconsin. The land is low and swampy,
and in flood times the current sometimes sets from one river into the
other. The government constructed a canal across this narrow divide,
which, you see. Marquette described and measured quite accurately.

[127-11] Marquette writes: "Thus we left the Waters flowing to Quebec,
four or five hundred leagues from here, to float on those that would
thenceforth take us through strange lands. Before embarking thereon, we
began all together a new devotion to the blessed Virgin Immaculate,
which we practiced daily, addressing to her special prayers to place
under her protection, both our persons and the success of our voyage;
and, after mutually encouraging one another, we entered our Canoes."

[127-12] Now, as then, the shifting sand bars make navigation of the
Wisconsin difficult and impracticable, although the government has spent
large sums of money in trying to improve it.

[127-13] The latitude Marquette gives is about right. 43 deg. is practically
correct.

[127-14] "High mountains," as we now understand the phrase, is an
exaggerated term to apply to the bold bluffs about three or four hundred
feet high on the Iowa side of the Mississippi, south of McGregor.

[128-15] This is a little south of Savanna, Ill., if Marquette's
latitude is right.

[128-16] Sparks has not given us the whole of the famous journal. Among
other interesting things in this connection Marquette writes: "When we
cast our nets into the water we caught sturgeon, and a very
extraordinary kind of fish. It resembles the trout, with this
difference, that its mouth is larger. Near its nose--which is smaller,
as are also the eyes--is a large bone, shaped like a woman's
corset-bone, three fingers wide and a cubit long, at the end of which is
a disk as wide as one's hand. This frequently causes it to fall back