All help was refused, but La Vérendrye was told that he might let out his forts to other traders, and so raise means to pursue the discovery.
La Vérendrye was authorized to find a way to the Pacific at his own expense, in consideration of a monopoly of the fur-trade in the regions north and west of Lake Superior.
The brothers La Vérendrye sank into poverty and neglect.
Nor was this all; for in the morning La Vérendrye missed his interpreter, and was told that he had fallen in love with an Assiniboin girl and gone off in pursuit of her.
Clearly there was money to be got from the fur-trade of Manitoba, for La Vérendrye had made every preparation and incurred every expense.
The exclusive privileges granted to La Vérendrye would inevitably rouse the intensest jealousy of the Canadian merchants, and they would spare no effort to ruin him.
Neill has a pamphlet, Le Sieur de la Vérendrye and his sons, discoverers of the Rocky Mountains by way of Lakes Superior and Winnipeg, Minneapolis, 1875.
La Vérendrye mentions some peculiar customs of the Mandans which answer exactly to those described by more recent observers.
Footnote: Legardeur de Saint-Pierre, in spite of his treatment of the La Vérendrye brothers, had merit as an officer.
In 1731 Montreal traders sent out the Chevalier Varennes de la Vérendrye to hunt, trade and to find the Pacific.
In September, 1738, Vérendrye entered, the first white man, the Red River for the forks of the Assiniboine.
Eventually, the two La Vérendrye brothers were obliged to make their way to the Missouri River, and abandon any idea of finding a way to the Western Ocean across the Rocky Mountains.
When La Vérendrye reached Fort St. Charles its little garrison was almost at the point of starvation.
But a way out of the difficulty was found by the Governor giving La Vérendrye the monopoly of the fur trade in the far North-West.
La Vérendrye established forts and posts along his route from Lake Nipigon, but his expedition had not been a commercial success.
La Vérendrye in his fort on Lake Winnipeg was in a desperate position.
La Vérendrye himself thought that this would prove to be the best route by which the French could reach the Western Sea.
Accordingly, La Vérendrye arranged with the Mandans to frighten them away by pretending that the Siou Indians were on the warpath.
For a guide they had the Indian, Oshagash, who had first told La Vérendrye of the western river and the salt water.
La Vérendrye nearly died of agonizing pain and fatigue during this journey, and was a long time recovering from its effects.
Leaving Jemmeraie in command, and permitting his eager son to go ahead with a few picked men to Fort Maurepas on Lake Winnipeg, De la Vérendrye took a small canoe and descended with all swiftness to Quebec.
Here was a man whose discoveries were second only to those of Columbus, and whose explorations were more far-ranging and important than those of Champlain and La Salle and De la Vérendrye put together.
Mandan coureurs came out to welcome the visitors, pompously presenting De la Vérendrye with corn in the ear and tobacco.
It was a risk that De la Vérendrye did not intend to have repeated.
The Bows fled back to their wives in a panic; so De la Vérendrye could not climb the mountains that barred the way to the sea.
The very goods forwarded by De la Vérendrye were confiscated.
Illustration: Hungry Hall, 1870; near the site of the Vérendrye Fort in Rainy River Region.
Ten Cree wigwams and two war chiefs awaited De la Vérendrye on the low flats of what are now known as South Winnipeg.
The action of the wind explained the Indian tales of an ocean tide, which had misled La Vérendrye into expecting to find the Western Sea at this point.
In 1746 De la Vérendrye himself was summoned to Quebec and his command given to M.
Immediately on receiving freedom from military duty, young Chevalier de la Vérendrye set out for Manitoba.
Desperate, but not deterred from his quest, De la Vérendrye set out to contest the lawsuits in Montreal.
Vérendrye had now spent seven years in his search for the Western Sea.
A rude fort called Fort Rouge was built, and leaving his sons to trade with the Indians, Vérendrye pushed on up the Assiniboine and in one week came to the “Portage of the Prairie.
The merchants at Montreal upon whom Vérendrye depended for aid were not interested in his work of exploration, but cared only for the loads of valuable furs which he sent to them.
La Vérendrye presumably first introduced the tobacco of the whites to these people.
La Vérendrye was astonished at the orderly way in which these savages, about six hundred in number, travelled across the prairies.
The Chippewas and the Crees, who had always been friendly to the French, were indignant at the treacherous massacre of the white men by the Sioux, and urged La Vérendrye to lead a war party against this enemy.
Before leaving the country, La Vérendrye buried on the summit of a hill a tablet of lead, with the arms and inscription of the French king.
La Vérendrye determined to strive even more earnestly than any of his great predecessors to discover a way to the Western Sea, not so much for his own advantage as for the honour and glory of his native country.
After the Mandan had gone back, the brothers La Vérendrye managed to explain to the Good-looking Indians by signs that they were seeking the Horse Indians and asked for guides to one of the camps of these Indians.
When young La Vérendrye had built this fort, he went farther north to Cedar Lake, near the mouth of the Saskatchewan river, and there built another fort.
La Vérendrye did not know how much of this to believe, and he was not even sure that he correctly understood what the Mandans tried to convey to him by signs.
The perils and hardships encountered by the discoverers of America in crossing the Atlantic were much less terrible than those with which La Vérendrye and his men must battle in exploring the boundless plains of the unknown West.
While these events were ripening, the years passed, and not until 1749 was La Vérendrye restored to his leadership in the West.
But La Vérendrye had heard such tales before and was not to be frightened from his purpose.
La Vérendrye was too true a leader to abandon plans merely because the road was not made easy for him.
The year after his return from the expedition to Deerfield, Pierre de La Vérendrye took part in another raid against the English settlements.
It was a world, though La Vérendrye knew it not, five times larger than New France, half as big as all Europe.
Accompanied by the priest Aulneau, young Jean de La Vérendrye decided to rush canoes down from the Lake of the Woods to Michilimackinac for food and powder.
La Vérendrye took canoe for Quebec, and, with heart beating to the passion of a secret ambition, laid the drawings before Governor Beauharnois.
At last came the belated supplies, and by February of 1737 La Vérendrye had moved his main forces west to Lake Winnipeg.
The wanderings of La Vérendrye and his sons for the next few years led southwestward far as the Rockies in the region of Montana, northwestward far as the Bow River branch of the Saskatchewan.
The bourne of the Unknown still fled like the rainbow, and La Vérendrye still pursued.
Leaving men to learn the Missouri dialects, La Vérendrye marched in the teeth of mid-winter storms back to the Portage of the Prairie on the Assiniboine.
La Vérendrye was in debt to his men for three years' wages, in debt to his partners for three years' provisions.
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