A month later, before the canoeists, the Mississippi River unfolded. After turning towards the southern direction, they went downstream through paddling and reached that area, which is now known as the border between the Arkansas and Louisiana. Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette decided not to return in the way which they took to come.
This is because it was in the middle of the month of July and they both feared that they would have themselves delivered to the Spaniards of Florida if they went any further in that route. Though they were disappointed that they could not reach the mouth of the Mississippi River, they at least established one point that the Mississippi River actually flowed into the water body of the Gulf of Mexico in reality. Both of them also noticed that there were other rivers which were flowing towards the western direction and they believed that these rivers either flowed into the Japan Sea or flowed into the China Sea.
As the canoe which belonged to Louis Jolliet went upset in the Lachine Rapids, he returned back to the colony sometime during the summer of In the same, he had also lost his diary and the map which he drew for the expedition. However, with the help of his memory, he recalled all the necessary and required information and once again was successful in managing to recompose them both. Later on in her life, she became an influenced personality amongst the people in the colony.
In , he made a proposal where he asked for permission if he could set up a trading centre at Illinois. He took his minor orders in and completed a thesis in philosophy in while working as a cleric. He left the priesthood in Following his return to New France, Jolliet became a coureur de bois.
In , Jolliet was chosen by Intendant Jean Talon to lead an expedition to determine whether the Mississippi, known from Aboriginal accounts, flowed into the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific Ocean. Accompanied by six others, including Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette as translator, Jolliet set forth on the expedition in May and reached the mouth of the Mississippi on 15 June. In mid-July they had reached lat. They turned back when friendly Aboriginals advised them that going farther would expose them to hostile Aboriginal and Spanish forces.
Jolliet returned north and spent the winter of —74 at Ste-Marie du Sault. Copies of the log-book and map left with the Jesuits at Saint-Marie falls were lost in a fire. Jolliet then concentrated on trade and fisheries at his concessions, until two raids by the English in and dealt him a financial blow from which he never recovered. In addition to fishing and trading with Aboriginals along the way, Jolliet took detailed notes of the coastline and its inhabitants and completed 16 cartographic sketches — the first recorded account of the northern Labrador coast and the most detailed description of the Inuit to that time.
He was appointed hydrographer to the king of France in Though more famous as an explorer and hydrographer, Jolliet was also one of the earliest practicing Canadian musicians. He recorded details of the country, navigation, the Inuit and their customs. Although his body was never found, and the place and date of his death remain unknown, a mass for his soul was said on September 15, Jolliet was one of the first people of European descent born in North America to be remembered for significant discoveries.
Though no authentic period portrait is known to exist, Jolliet is often portrayed wearing either typical frontiersman garb scortums and fur hat or in sharp contrast, ensconced in the European nobleman's style that his personal wealth and prestige would have commanded although living in colonial society.
The several variations in the spelling of the name "Jolliet" reflect spelling that occurred at times when illiteracy or poor literacy was common, and spelling was still highly unstandardized.
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