[ [38] See La Potherie, ii. 125. Perrot himself does not mention it. Charlevoix erroneously places this interview at Chicago. Perrot's narrative shows that he did not go farther than the tribes of Green Bay; and the Miamis were then, as we have seen, on the upper part of Fox River.
[ [39] Perrot, Mémoires, 127.
[ [40] Procès Verbal de la Prise de Possession, etc., 14 Juin, 1671. The names are attached to this instrument.
[ [41] Marquette is said to have been present; but the official act just cited, proves the contrary. He was still at St. Esprit.
[ [42] Procès Verbal de la Prise de Possession.
[ [43] The Indian name of the governor of Canada.
[ [44] A close translation of Dablon's report of the speech. See Relation, 1671, 27.
[ [45] Lettre de Frontenac au Ministre, 2 Nov., 1672. In the Brodhead Collection, by a copyist's error, the name of the Chevalier de Grandfontaine is substituted for that of Talon.