With Kri guides they started away to the north and north-east, no doubt by way of the Lake of the Woods, the English River, Lake St.Joseph, and the Albany River, thus reaching the salt sea at James Bay, the southernmost extension of Hudson Bay.
Or they may have proceeded by an even shorter route, though with longer portages for canoes, through Lake Nipigon to the Albany.
The summer of 1662 they passed on the islands and shores of James Bay hunting "buffalo"[6] with the Indians.

Then, in 1663, travelling back along the same route they had followed in the previous year, they regained Lake Superior, and so passed by the north of Lake Huron to the Ottawa River and the St.Lawrence.But on their return to Three Rivers they were arrested by the French Governor, D'Avaugour, who condemned them to imprisonment and severe fines.

The courts of France gave them no redress, and in their furious anger Chouart and Radisson went over to the English, offered their services to England, and so brought about the creation of the Hudson Bay Company.
[Footnote 6: More probably musk oxen.] Radisson's journey from England to Hudson Bay has been treated of in an earlier chapter: it is preferable to follow out to its finish the great, western impulse of the French, which led them to neglect for a time the doings of the British on the east coast of North America and in the sub-Arctic regions of Hudson Bay.
From 1660 onwards the Jesuit missionaries again took up vigorously that work of Christianizing the Amerindians which had been so completely checked by the frightful ravages of the Iroquois between 1648 and 1654.
By 1669 the Jesuits had three permanent stations in western Canada.
The first was the mission station at Sault Ste.

Marie, the second was the station of Ste.

Esprit, on Lake Superior (not far from the modern town of Ashland), and the third was the station of St.Francois Xavier at the mouth of the Fox River, on Green Bay, Lake Michigan.
As regards some of the sufferings which these missionaries had to go through when travelling across Canada in the winter, I quote the following from _The Relations of the Jesuits_ (p.