ii. 143;

on the English plan to conquer Canada, ii. 153; ii. 157.

Iberville, Le Moyne d’, plans for an expedition against New England, i. 6; offers to plant a colony in Louisiana, i. 300; 382 his offer accepted, i. 300; enters the Mississippi River, i. 301; at Biloxi, i. 302; sails for France, i. 302; royal instructions to, i. 304; returns to Biloxi, i. 304; establishes a post at Mobile Bay, i. 305; forms a third establishment at Dauphin Island, i. 306; accused of peculation, i. 306; i. 354.

“Illinois, the,” i. 327; annexed to Louisiana, i. 328; Boisbriant in command at, i. 329.

Illinois Indians, the, Father Rale among, i. 217, 220; at Fort St. Louis, i. 275; at Detroit, i. 283, 289; furiously attacked by the Outagamies, i. 330, 335; i. 356.

Illinois River, the, i. 275, 311, 324, 327, 340, 354, 359; ii. 57.

Illinois, State of, i. 278.

Illinois, the mission of the, i. 350.

Indian Old Point, i. 219.

Indian Old Town, i. 254.

Indians, the, show a lack of confidence in the English, i. 9; Cadillac’s plan of civilizing, i. 24; the Jesuits’ plan of civilizing, i. 24; their forbearance towards female prisoners, i. 76; the cost to Massachusetts of killing, i. 100; benevolence of Samuel Sewall towards, i. 223; their petty attacks on the frontier settlements, ii. 214-216. See also:-- Abenakis, Algonquins, Androscoggins, Apsarokas, Arickaras, Arkansas, Assagunticooks, Assiniboins, Bayagoulas, Blackfeet, Blancs Barbus, Bows, Caddoes, Cape Cod, Cape Sable, Caughnawagas, Cherokees, Cheyennes, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Choke-Cherry, Comanches, Creeks, Crows, Dakotas, Eastern, “Far,” Five Nations, Foxes, French, Horse, Hurons, Illinois, Iroquois, Kansas, Kaskaskias, Kennebecs, Kickapoos, Little Fox, Malicites, Mandans, Mascoutins, Menominies, Micmacs, Minneconjous, Minnetarees, Mississagas, Missouris, Mohawks, Mohegans, Montagnais, Musquawkies, Nassonites, Natchez, Norridgewocks, Ojibwas, Omahas, Oncpapas, Oneidas, Onondagas, Osages, Ottawas, Otoes, Ouacos, Outagamies, Padoucas, Pawnee Picts, Pawnees, Penacooks, Penobscots, Pequawkets, Pigwackets, Pioyas, Pottawattamies, Puants, Quinipissas, Renards, Sacs, Sacs and Foxes, Sakis, Saukis, Senecas, Shoshones, Sioux, Six Nations, Snakes, Sokokis, Taensas, Tuscaroras, “Upper Nations,” Western, Wichitas, Winnebagoes, Yanktons.

Ingoldsby, Colonel, lieutenant-governor of New York, i. 137; in the conquest of Canada, i. 139.

Ipswich, town of, joins the expedition against Port Royal, i. 126.

Ireland, i. 192; ii. 341.

Iroquois Indians, the, i. 17; superstitions in connection with sexual abstinence, i. 76; accused of causing the pestilence in Nicholson’s camp, i. 143; cease to be a danger to Canada, i. 216.

Iroquois of the Lake of Two Mountains, the, 383 sent from Montreal against the English border, ii. 217.

Iroquois of the Mountain, the, i. 235.

Iroquois of Sault St. Louis, the, sent from Montreal against the English border, ii. 217.

“Island Battery,” the, at Louisbourg, ii. 94, 95, 99; attacked by the English, ii. 118, 119; description of, ii. 120; failure of the attack, ii. 122, 129; ii. 130, 139.

Iroquois, the converted, i. 36.

Isle au Cochon, i. 295.

Isle-aux-Coudres, ii. 154.

Isle aux Œufs, i. 174, 175, 179.

Isle d’Aix, ii. 311.

Isle of Wight, the, Dudley lieutenant-governor of, i. 105.

Isle Royale, i. 186, 188, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 200, 201, 203, 207, 210; ii. 60, 260, 280, 288, 295.

Isle St. Jean, ii. 186, 198, 207.

Isles of Shoals, the, ii. 74.

Isthmus of Panama, the, i. 134.

Jamaica, ii. 270, 275.

James I., ii. 262.

James II., of England, i. 4, 148.

Jaques, Benjamin, kills Father Rale at Norridgewock, i. 247.

Jerseys, the, ii. 341.

Jesuit missions, the, reproach of, i. 24; meagre results of, i. 26; a change comes over, i. 214.

Jesuits, the Canadian, among Indians, i. 11; among the Mohawks, i. 13; at Michilimackinac, i. 17; Cadillac’s aversion for, i. 19; opposed to Cadillac’s plans to civilize the Indians, i. 24; vast possessions of, i. 25; Cadillac’s relations with, i. 30; find John Williams a stubborn heretic, i. 78, 79; refuse to give up Eunice Williams, i. 80; characteristics of, i. 215; their functions become as much political as religious, i. 215; charged to keep firm the bond between the French and the Indians, i. 216; their methods of converting the Indians, i. 216; cultivate with diligence the Eastern missions, i. 216; the early missionaries compared with their successors, i. 217.

Jews, the, expelled from Louisiana, i. 316.

Jogues, Father Isaac, on the banks of the Mohawk, i. 18; i. 139, 215.

Johnson, William, among the Mohawks, ii. 211; charged with Indian affairs by Governor Clinton, ii. 212; loses the support of the Assembly, ii. 212; difficulties of, ii. 212.

Joncaire, agent of France among the Senecas, i. 11, 13, 138; ii. 52; his important work in moulding the Indians, ii. 211.

Jones, Esther, disperses the Indians at Dover, i. 95.

Jones, Josiah, wounded by the Pequawkets, i. 265, 266.

Jones, Lieutenant, death of, ii. 193.

Jordan, the river, ii. 48, 264, 265.

Juchereau, Mother, see _Saint-Denis, Mother Juchereau de_.

Judicial officers, method of electing, i. 41.

Justinien, Père, the Récollet, curé of Mines, i. 194, 206.

Kalm, the Swedish naturalist, i. 177; 384 describes Crown Point, ii. 255.

Kaministiguia, the river, ii. 3; 9; La Noue at the mouth of, ii. 4.

Kankakee River, the, ii. 57.

Kannan, H., ii. 162, 164.

Kansas Indians, the, villages of, i. 361, 363; i. 365.

Kansas River, the, i. 360, 362, 363.

Kaskaskia, town of, i. 327; mixed marriages of, i. 328.

Kaskaskias, the, i. 327.

Kaskékouké River, the, ii. 236, 253.

Keene, Indian attack on, ii. 214.

Kellogg, escapes from Indian captivity, i. 87.

Kellogg, Joanna, i. 90.

Kennebec Indians, the, i. 224.

Kennebec lands, the, titles to, i. 222.

Kennebec mission, the, i. 219.

Kennebec River, the, i. 5, 6, 35, 36, 47; the dividing line between the French and New England, i. 213; watched with greatest jealousy, i. 213; the Norridgewocks on, i. 213, 217, 234; ii. 48, 49, 50, 51, 260, 261, 262, 263, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272.

Kennebunk, i. 40.

Kennetcook River, the, ii. 188.

Kent, killed by Indians, i. 45.

Kentucky, State of, i. 321.

Keyes, Solomon, mortally wounded by the Pequawkets, i. 264, 266.

Kickapoos, the, on Rock River, i. 278;