It was his cousin, Henri de Tonty, who had accompanied La Salle.

After returning to France to fight in the wars then going on, he came back to Canada with a younger brother, Claude.

He had in him the spirit of great adventurers, and longed to visit the unknown countries of the upper Mississippi.

In the early part of these journeys he rescued his fellow countrymen from the keeping of the Sious in the manner described.

After that he spent _thirty_ years travelling and trading about North America, from the northern Mississippi into what we should now call Manitoba, and from the vicinity of Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay.