[504] Harrisse makes the date of the letter 1685, at which time its writer was near Lake Superior; Shea, in its translation appended to his edition of Hennepin, retains the same date.
[505] He probably established the post near the Sioux at the portage of the St. Croix River, which upon Franquelin’s map of 1688 is called Fort St. Croix. The hostility of the Indians at the Bay may have led him to seek the point by way of Lake Superior.
[506] Louis XIV. confusedly writes on July 31, 1684: “It also appears to me that one of the principal causes of this war proceeds from the man named Du Lhut having two Iroquois killed who assassinated two Frenchmen on Lake Superior.”
[507] Tonty in Margry, i. 614.
[508] Margry, ii. 343.
[509] Bellin, in Remarques sur la Carte de l’Amérique Septentrionale, Paris, 1755, writes: “In the eastern part of Lake Nepigon there is a river by which one may ascend to the head of Hudson’s Bay. It is said this was discovered by a Canadian named Perray, who was the first to travel this route, and gave his name to the river.”
[510] Son of Groseilliers.
[511] Fort La Tourette. See Franquelin’s map of 1688 on a later page.
[512] Greyselon de la Tourette.
[513] De la Barre, Oct. 1, 1684; N. Y. Col. Docs., ix. 243.