See
_Jesuit Relations_ for detailed accounts of these routes. Dreuillettes
went farther west to the Crees a few years later, but that does not
concern this narrative.
[4] The dispute as to whether eastern Minnesota was discovered on the
1654-55-56 trip, and whether Groseillers discovered it, is a point for
savants, but will, I think, remain an unsettled dispute.
[5] The _Relations_ do not give the names of these two Jesuits,
probably owing to the fact that the enterprise failed. They simply
state that two priests set out, but were compelled to remain behind
owing to the caprice of the savages.
[6] Whether they were now on the Ottawa or the St. Lawrence, it is
impossible to tell. Dr. Dionne thinks that the band went overland from
Lake Ontario to Lake Huron. I know both waters--Lake Ontario and the
Ottawa--from many trips, and I think Radisson's description here
tallies with his other descriptions of the Ottawa. It is certain that
they must have been on the Ottawa before they came to the Lake of the
Castors or Nipissing. The noise of the waterfall seems to point to the
Chaudiere Falls of the Ottawa. If so, the landing place would be the
tongue of land running out from Hull, opposite the city of Ottawa, and
the _portage_ would be the Aylmer Road beyond the rapids above the
falls. Mr. Benjamin Sulte, the scholarly historian, thinks they went
by way of the Ottawa, not Lake Ontario, as the St. Lawrence route was
not used till 1702.
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