Accault remained behind with the Siou, delighted with their wild, roving life, and no doubt married an Indian wife and became the father of some of those bold half-breeds who played such a great part in the subsequent history of innermost Canada.

But Father Hennepin returned to Montreal, and made his way eventually to France, where he fell into great disgrace and was unfrocked.

He had richly merited this treatment, for after he heard of the death of La Salle he impudently claimed the discovery of the whole course of the Mississippi River for himself, and for a long time was believed.

He will certainly go down in history as the man who discovered and described Niagara Falls (in 1678), and he also assisted greatly to clear up the geography of the time by the information he collected from the Amerindians as to the vast extent of the North-American continent; but he was a boastful, unscrupulous man.
Du L'Hut, who came to the rescue of Accault and Hennepin, was of noble family, and a member of the king's bodyguard.

He decided, however, to seek his fortune in Canada, and obtained a commission as captain.