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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)
ay which he called St. Theresa, and which may have been the Bay of Keweena, on the south shore of Lake Superior. After a residence of eight months, he yielded to the invitation of Hurons who had taken refuge in the Isle 1661. of St. Michael; and, bidding farewell to his neophytes and the French, and to those whom he never more should meet on earth, he departed, with one attendant, for the Bay of Che-goi-me-gon. The accounts would indicate that he took the route by way of Keweena Lake and Portage. There, while his attendant was Aug. 20. employed in the labor of transporting the canoe, Mesnard was lost in the forest, and was never again seen. Chap. XX.} Long afterwards, his cassock and his breviary were kept as amulets among the Sioux. Meantime, the colony of New France was too feeble 1660. to defend itself against the dangerous fickleness and increasing confidence of the Iroquois: the very harvest could not be gathered in safety; the convents were insecure; many prepared to