d Cape Diamond, battery and
bastion thundered a welcome. Welcome they were, and thrice welcome;
for so ceaseless had been the Iroquois wars that the three French ships
lying at anchor would have returned to France without a single beaver
skin if the explorers had not come. Citizens shouted from the terraced
heights of Chateau St. Louis, and bells rang out the joy of all New
France over the discoverers' return. For a week Radisson and
Groseillers were feted. Viscomte d'Argenson, the new governor,
presented them with gifts and sent two brigantines to carry them home
to Three Rivers. There they rested for the remainder of the year,
Groseillers at his seigniory with his wife, Marguerite; Radisson, under
the parental roof.[23]

[1] Mr. Benjamin Sulte establishes this date as 1634.

[2] See _Jesuit Relations_, 1656-57-58. I have purposely refrained
from entering into the heated controversy as to the identity of these
two men. It is apart from the subject, as there is no proof these men
went beyond the Green Bay region.

[3] These routes were; (1) By the Saguenay, (2) by Three Rivers and the
St. Maurice, (3) by Lake Nipissing, (4) by Lake Huron, through the land
of the Sautaux, (5) by Lake Superior overland, (6) by the Ottawa. 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, oppos