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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)
h his heroic sagacity had planned, and the special favor of Seignelay, Colbert's son, he obtained, with the monopoly of the traffic in buffalo skins, a commission for perfecting the discovery of the Great River. With Tonti, an Italian veteran, as 1678 his lieutenant, and a recruit of mechanics and mariners; with anchors, and sails, and cordage for rigging a ship, and stores of merchandise for traffic with the natives; with swelling hopes, and a boundless ambition, La Salle, in the autumn of 1678, returned to Fort Frontenac. Before winter, a wooden canoe of ten tons, the first that ever sailed into Niagara River, bore a part of his company to the vicinity of the falls; at Niagara, a trading-house was established; in the mouth of the Cayuga Creek, the work of shipbuilding began; Tonti and the Franciscan Hennepin, venturing among the Senecas, established relations of amity,—while La Salle himself, skilled in the Indian dialects, was now urging forward the ship-builders, now gathering f