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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
an; and at the mouth of the St. Joseph's, in that peninsula where Allouez had already gathered a village of Miamis, awaiting the return of the Griffin, he constructed the trading-house, with palisades, known as the Fort of the Miamis. It marks his careful forethought, that he sounded the mouth of the St. Joseph's, and raised buoys to mark the channel. But of his vessel, on which his fortunes so much depended, no things came. Weary of delay, he resolved to penetrate Illinois; and, leaving Dec. 3. ten men to guard the Fort of the Miamis, La Salle himself, with Hennepin and two other Franciscans, Chap. XX.} with Tonti and about thirty followers, ascended the St. Joseph's, and, by a short portage over bogs and 1679 swamps made dangerous by a snow-storm, entered the Kankakee. Descending its narrow stream, before the end of December, the little company had reached the site of an Indian village on the Illinois, probably not far from Ottawa, in La Salle county. The tribe was absent, p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ssion, singing spiritual songs. As they floated down the Maine, and 1733 between the castled crags, the vineyards, and the white-walled towns that adorn the banks of the Rhine, their conversation, amidst hymns and prayers, was of I'm standlicher Vorbericht, 16 Nov. 27. justification, and of sanctification, and of standing fast in the Lord. At Rotterdam, they were joined by two preachers, Bolzius and Gronau, both disciplined in charity at the Orphan House in Halle. A passage of Nov. 27. Dec. 3. six days carried them from Rotterdam to Dover, where several of the trustees visited them and provided considerately for their wants. In January, 1734, they set sail for their new homes. The majesty of the ocean Reise Diarium. quickened their sense of God's omnipotence and wisdom; and, as they lost sight of land, they broke out into a hymn to his glory. The setting sun, after a calm, so kindled the sea and the sky, that words could not express their rapture; and they cried out, How love