MENENDEZ, PEDRO, DE AVILES, appointed Spanish Governor of Florida, [83]; attacks Ribaut's vessels off the St. John's, [89]; founds St. Augustine, [90]; surprises Fort Caroline, [92]; massacres the garrison, [93], and shipwrecked crews of Ribaut's vessels, [94].
MIAMIS, an Algonquin tribe, [7].
MICHILLIMACKINAC, trading-post and mission-station, [235].
MICMACS, an Algonquin tribe, [7].
MILLE LACS, a lake in Minnesota, [301].
MILWAUKEE, La Salle near the site of, [236].
MISSIONARIES, ROMAN CATHOLIC, unselfish devotion of, [147] et seq.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER, western boundary of Maskoki group, [9].
MISSOURI RIVER, Mouth of, first seen by Joliet and Marquette, [180].
MITCHIGAMEAS, a branch of the Maskoki family, [181].