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Black river. It is believed that he was murdered by the Sioux, 

 for among them his breviary and robe were discovered years 

 afterward. That stream, now called Bois Brule, forms the bound- 

 ary between Wisconsin and Michigan, and it is not known on 

 which side of it Menard lost his life. Both states may, therefore, 

 with equal plausibility, glory in him as their own protomartyr. 

 Wading through the sodden snow, under the bare and dripping 

 forests, drenched with rains, braving every variety of unknown 

 horror, faint, yet pursuing to the last, well may we, people of both. 

 states, count him worthy of double honor ! Doubtless his last re- 

 gret was that he had not a whole life to lay down for the salvation 

 of each state. 



I^I^Four year.'^ after, in 1665, Father Allouez succeeded Menard at 

 La Pointe, and carried on his work. Yery likely, as in the early 

 days of Montreal, his only altar lamp was a vial full of fire flies. 

 When he returned to Quebec for reenforcements, he remained 

 there only two nights before starting back again with volunteer 

 co-workers. La Pointe was then a four months' voyage from 

 Quebec. He was saying mass at Grreen Bay to six hundred In- 

 dians and eight French traders in 1669, and the next year exhib- 

 ited a picture of the last judgment, at ISTeenah, on Lake Winne- 

 bago. A silver monstrance, the case in which the sacramental 

 wafer is held up for veneration, presented to the chapel of Allouez 

 by the French governor, Nicolas Perrot, and bearing the date of 

 1686, was dug up, in 1802, at De Pere near the head of Green 

 Bay, and is now treasured in the ambry of the cathedral there. 

 In 1671, a chart (SttxSS centimeters) was drawn, entitled T^a^e 

 Tracy or Superior^ with the dependencies of the Mission of the 

 Holy Spirit [that is La Pointe']. It is still extant in Parisian ar- 

 chives, at the depot of marine charts. Two years later in the 

 Jesuit relation of 1673, a map of their missions on the Lake of 

 the Illinois [that is Michigan] was published. 



In the same year the first white men, one of them a missionary, 

 of whose journey a contemporary record remains, crossed^Wis- 

 consin from east to west. These adventurers were Joliefc and 

 Marquette — a noble brace of brothers. Equals in enthusiasm, 

 the faith of Marquette, the Jesuit, rivaled the rage for discovery 



