PIONEER HUNTERS OF THE KANKAKEE 

 celebrated explorer had another object in view. 

 This was to find the link which connected the 

 great inland seas of the north with the waters of 

 the gulf in the south. He had heard of that 

 wonderful river, "The Father of Waters," which 

 flowed from tne unexplored wilderness in the 

 north far away into the unknown Sunny South. 

 With this object before him he set out on an ex- 

 ploring expedition to find a shorter way that 

 would shorten the world's commerce between 

 the East and the West and to his idea he had 

 found the missing link which is our own Kanka- 

 kee river. 



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