[Footnote 79: Histoire du Canada, 193-4 (edition of 1866).]
[Footnote 80: Dablon, Jesuit Relations, 1671.]
[Footnote 81: See Parkman, Pioneers, 429 ff. (1890).]
[Footnote 82: Margry, I., 50. The date rests on inference; see
Bibliography of Nicolet in Wis. Hist. Colls., XI., and cf. Hebberd,
Wisconsin under French Dominion, 14.]
[Footnote 83: N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 160.]
[Footnote 84: Margry, VI., 3; Coll. de Mamiscrits, I., 255, where the
date is wrongly given as 1676. The italics are ours.]
[Footnote 85: Radisson, Voyages (Prince Soc. Pubs.); Margry, I., 53-55,
83; Jes. Rels., 1660; Wis. Hist. Colls., X., XI; Narrative and Critical
Hist. Amer., IV., 168-173.]
[Footnote 86: Cf. Radisson, 173-5, and Jes. Rels., 1660, pp. 12, 30;
1663, pp. 17 ff.]
[Footnote 87: Pottawattomies in the region of Green Bay.]
[Footnote 88: Wis. Hist. Colls., XI., 67-8.]
[Footnote 89: _Ibid._ XI., 90.]
[Footnote 90: Radisson, 200, 217, 219.]
[Footnote 91: Suite, in Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of
Science, Arts and Letters, V., 141; N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 153, 140,152;
Margry, VI., 3; Parkman, Old Régime, 310-315.]
[Footnote 92: Cf. Jes. Rels., 1670, p. 92.]
[Footnote 93: History of United States, II., 138 (1884).]
[Footnote 94: Harrisse, Notes sur la Nouvelle France, 174-181.]
[Footnote 95: Parkman, Old Régime, 328 ff., and La Salle, 98; Margry,
II., 251; Radisson, 173.]
[Footnote 96: See Talon's report quoted in Narr. and Crit. Hist. Amer.,
IV., 175.]
[Footnote 97: Margry abounds in evidences of La Salle's commercial
activity, as does Parkman's La Salle. See also Dunn, Indiana, 20-1.]
[Footnote 98: Margry, II., 254.]
[Footnote 99: Margry, II., 251.]
[Footnote 100: Tailhan's Perrot, 57.]
[Footnote 101: Jes. Rels., 1670.]
[Footnote 102: La Hontan, I., 53; N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 159; Parkman,
Old Régime, 305.]
[Footnote 103: Margry, VI., 45.]
[Footnote 104: Margry, I., 81.]
[Footnote 105: N.Y. Col. Docs., IX., 187. On the cost of such
expeditions, see documents in Margry, I., 293-296; VI., 503-507. On the
profits of the trade, see La Salle in 2 Penna. Archives, VI., 18-19.]
[Footnote 106: See Radisson, _ante_, p. 28.]
[Footnote 107: _Vide post_, p. 62.]
[Footnote 108: _Vide ante_, p. 14; Radisson, 154; Minn. Hist. Colls.,
V., 427. Compare the effects of the introduction of bronze weapons into
Europe.]
[Footnote 109: Margry, II., 234. On the power possessed by the French
through this trade consult also D'Iberville's plan for locating
Wisconsin Indians on the Illinois by changing their trading posts; see
Margry, IV., 586-598.]
[Footnote 110: Wis. Hist. Colls., XI., 67-8, 90; Narr. and Crit. Hist.
Amer., IV., 182; Perrot, 327; Margry, VI., 507-509, 653-4.]