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referring to any of their temporary camps or places of rest. There was 

 nothing military in it. 



*' Here they found themselves at the beginning of May, 1G62, in the 

 Bay of Chagouamigon, quite prepared to explore Hudson Bay or James Bay 

 and to return to Canada the next year, which plan they carried out exactly. 



^^ Pigeon River, also called Grand Portage and Rivière des Groseilliers. 

 It is the limit between Canada and the United States. 



^' Moose River? It was in the early part of June, 1662. Here the 

 reader will meet with an unexpected document which must not be omitted 

 by any means. Father Jérôme Lalement writes the following entry in the 

 Journal des Jésuites: 



" I left Quebec on May 3rd, 1662, for Three Rivers. I came across 

 des Groseilliers, who was going to the North Sea. He passed during the 

 night before, Quebec, with ten men, and, having arrived at Cap Tourmente, 

 he wrote to the Governor." 



If the date of this note is correct, the voyage of Radisson may be open 

 to doubt. 



"^ Father Louis Hennepin, in his edition of 1698, page 290, states that: — 



" The Great Bay of the North was discovered by Mr. Desgroseliers 

 Rochechouart (sic) with whom I often travelled in canoe when I was in 

 Canada." 



'^ During his exploration of Lake Pepin and Upper Mississippi, part 

 of the summer of 1659, also during his residence amongst the Sioux, in the 

 winter of 1659-60, Radisson was looking solely for the grounds where the 

 best beaver skins could be obtained. (Royal Society, 1903, Section 1., pp. 32, 

 35, 37, 41). This time the two men had found what they wanted, and soon 

 decided to abandon the route of Lake Superior and go to James Bay in the 

 future, either by ascending the Saguenay or sailing to Hudson Bay from the 

 Atlantic Ocean. This is what they told the Indians of James Bay and 

 Chagouamigon in plain terms. 



" River Assuapmouchan? This remark is from Dr. N. E. Dionne (Royal 

 Society, 1893, Section I, p. 132). Radisson was not far from the source of 

 that river, which is a prolongation of the Saguenay. 



" Radisson and Chouart already knew that the Indians who used to 

 visit annually the north shore of Lake Superior, visited just as frequently 

 the Great Bay of the North. Noël Jérémie, alias Lamontagne, says posi- 

 tively, that Chouart " being in the country of the Outaouas (Lake Superior) 

 advanced so far from there that he acquired a knowledge of Hudson Bay," 

 which we may take also for James Bay. 



°° They were called Gens des Terres (Island people) and Christinos or 

 Cristinos and Kilistinons. 



" On the 5th of July, 1664," says the Journal des Jésuites, " we got news 

 that 220 Sauvages des terres had arrived at Montreal with plenty of rich 

 skins; amongst them were eighty Kiristinons. They asked for a missionary." 



" At Moose Factory the temperature is such that celery, carFOts, pump- 

 kins, peas, cauliflowers, lettuce, etc., are growing easily and well. 



^^ I assume that they had left Lake Superior at Michipicoten (the Big 

 Mushroom) to follow Moose River, which allowed them to reach James Bay. 

 Coming back they ascended Albany River, passed to the Kenogami, Lake 

 Long, Black River, then to Lake Superior or Upper Lake. 



