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" Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles, they beheld... "
The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America - Page 11
by Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 654 pages
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History of the Colonization of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 pages
...men; a I'+tle footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful praiiie; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet...
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The North American Review, Volume 52

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 740 pages
...a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Juliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Juliet...
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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - 1843 - 524 pages
...little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, ^m- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name i"m. into Des Moines. Marquette...
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History of the United States from the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 pages
...footpath was discerned June . . . 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half qM^i from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, coml or Moingona, of which we have corrupted...
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Biographical and Critical Miscellanies

William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 pages
...a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-ua, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet...
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Biographical and Critical Miscellanies

William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 374 pages
...a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moiugona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet...
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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 pages
...little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, com- Of Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name pare Chill !<•• into Des...
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Methodism in America: With the Personal Narrative of the Author, During a ...

James Dixon - 1849 - 522 pages
...leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to have a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles,...the banks of a river, and two others on a slope, at the distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mon-ingon-e-na, or Moingona, of...
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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - 1850 - 516 pages
...footpath was discerned June • . r 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...and a half ,*«"% from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, co>"- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name .oiT'ih". into Des Moines....
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Historical Collections of Louisiana: Embracing Translations of ..., Volume 2

1850 - 322 pages
...in a savage country. We followed this little path in silence about two leagues, when we discovered a village on the banks of a river, and two others on a hill about half a league from the first. We now commended ourselves to God, and having implored his...
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