Missouri.--Juchereau de Saint-Denis.--Benard de la Harpe on Red
River.--Adventures of Du Tisne.--Bourgmont visits the Comanches.--The
Brothers Mallet in Colorado and New Mexico.--Fabry de la Bruyere. 

CHAPTER XVI. 

1716-1761. 

SEARCH FOR THE PACIFIC. 

The Western Sea.--Schemes for reaching it.--Journey of Charlevoix.--The
Sioux Mission.--Varennes de la Verendrye.--His Enterprise.--His
Disasters.--Visits the Mandans.--His Sons.--Their Search for the Western
Sea.--Their Adventures.--The Snake Indians.--A Great War-Party.--The Rocky
Mountains.--A Panic.--Return of the Brothers.--Their Wrongs and their Fate. 

CHAPTER XVII. 

1700-1750.