off the
field, 200.

=Hennepin, Louis.= Born in Ath, Belgium, about 1640. Entered order of
Recollets. Sailed for Quebec, 1675. Stationed at Fort Frontenac, 1676.
Accompanied La Salle to the West, 1678. From Fort Crevecoeur (Peoria,
Ill.), in 1680, descended the Illinois and explored the upper waters of
the Mississippi. Captured by the Sioux and carried to their country.
After eight months, rescued by Du Lhut (_q.v._), passed the winter at
Michilimackinac, and returned to Quebec, 1682. Apparently satisfied with
his adventures in the wilderness, returned to Europe, and settled in
Holland, where devoted himself to the preparation of a series of
narratives of his explorations, real and imaginary. Died there about
1706. =Bib.=: Works: _Description de la Louisiane_, etc.; _Nouvelle
Decouverte,_ etc.; _Nouveau Voyage_, etc. For biog., and bibliog.
details of Hennepin's works, _see_ Thwaites's edition of the _New
Discovery_, 1903. _See also_ Parkman, _La Salle_.

=Henri.= =Ch= Servant of Madame Hebert, murdered by Montagnais Indian,
164.

=Henrietta of France, Queen of England.= =Ch= Dowry of, 216.

=Henry IV, King of France= (1553-1610). Succeeded Henry III in 1589.
=Index=: =F= Assassination of, 11. =Ch= Assassinated, 64. =Bib.=:
Chambers, _Biog. Dict._

=Henry, Alexander, the Elder= (1739-1824). One of the pioneer fur
traders in north-western America. Born in New Jersey. Entered the fur
trade as a young man, 1760, or perhaps earlier. His _Travels and
Adventures_ open in that year and describe his experiences in the West
for the following sixteen years. Sailed for Europe in 1776, where he
made the acquaintance of Sir Joseph Banks, president of the Royal
Society, and had an opportunity of describing his adventures to Marie
Antoinette. Afterwards settled in Montreal as a merchant. =Index=: =MS=
Leaves Montreal for western fur country, 3. =Bib.=: _Travels and
Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories_, New York, 1809; new
ed., with biog. and other notes, by James Bain, Toronto, 1901. _See
also_ Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_.

=Henry, Alexander, the Younger.= Nephew of preceding. Entered service of
North West Company about 1792. His _Journal_, the original manuscript of
which is in the Library of Parliament at Ottawa, and which was published
in 1897, with introduction and elaborate notes by Elliott Coues,
contains an account of his western travels and experiences, 1799 to
1814. Drowned near Fort George, at t