i. 299;

Iberville offers to plant a colony in, i. 300; the first foundations of, i. 302; marriageable girls sent from France to, i. 306, 314; famine and pestilence in, i. 306; farmed out to Antoine Crozat, i. 310; the effects of the change, i. 311, 312; the people petition to La Mothe-Cadillac, i. 312; his reply, i. 312; passes over to the Mississippi Company, i. 315; becomes the basis of financial salvation for France, i. 315; population of, i. 316; a prison, i. 316; the French scheme for peopling, i. 317; L’Épinay succeeds La Mothe-Cadillac as governor of, i. 318; Bienville reappointed governor of, i. 318; the total amount of money sunk in, i. 320; Sieur Perier succeeds Bienville, i. 320; Indian wars in, i. 321; again passes over to the Crown, i. 322; Bienville again made governor of, i. 322; Bienville resigns, i. 323; at last shows signs of growth, i. 324; plans of the chiefs of, i. 324; ceded to the United States, ii. 35; ii. 57, 266.

Louvigny, makes plans to attack the Outagamies, i. 332; illness of, i. 332; sets out on his expedition, i. 332; attacks the fortified village of the Outagamies, i. 333; his description of the defences, i. 334; the Outagamies sue for peace, i. 334; returns to Quebec with hostages, i. 335.

Lovelace, Lord, governor of New York, i. 135; death of, i. 137.

Lovewell, Hannah, i. 257.

Lovewell, Captain John, i. 257, 258; raises a company to hunt Indians, i. 259; his expeditions, i. 260-268; seriously wounded, i. 262; attacked by the Pequawkets, i. 262; burial of, i. 267.

Lovewell’s Pond, i. 257, 261, 268.

Lower Ashuelot, settlement of, attacked by the Indians, ii. 214.

“Lowestoffe,” the, i. 151.

Loyola, the organizing zeal of, i. 214.

Lund, Thomas, on the Indian attack on Dunstable, i. 258.

Lusignan (père), ii. 185, 190; letters of, ii. 200.

Lusignan (fils), wounded, ii. 192; letters of, ii. 200.

Lydius, Fort, i. 140.

Lyman, Caleb, attacks the French Indians, i. 50.

Lynn, joins the expedition against Port Royal, i. 126.

Madras, ii. 256.

Maillard, the priest, ii. 185, 186, 187.

Maine, State of, the whole burden of war falls upon, i. 16; an unbroken forest, i. 34; its beasts of prey, i. 36; the Indian tribes of, i. 36; the settlements of, i. 39; a dependency of Massachusetts, i. 40; characteristics of the people of, i. 40; the Abenaki tribes of, i. 101; the settlements again inhabited, i. 221; ii. 260.

Makisabie, war-chief of the Pottawattamies, i. 282.

Malicite Indians, the, i. 220; join Duvivier’s expedition against Annapolis, ii. 61; ii. 170.

Mallet, the brothers, in Colorado and New Mexico, i. 367, 368.

Malplaquet, battle of, ii. 9.

Mandans, the, ii. 15; 390 La Vérendrye among, ii. 16, 17; decline in numbers, ii. 17; visited by Prince Maximilian, ii. 17; villages of, ii. 17, 18; visited by Captains Lewis and Clark, ii. 17; persecuted by the Sioux and the small-pox, ii. 17; customs of, ii. 19; Pierre and Chevalier La Vérendrye among, ii. 20; Bodmer and Catlin among, ii. 20; origin of the name, ii. 21; lodges of, ii. 21; the “medicine lodge,” ii. 21.

Mandan villages, the, i. 367; ii. 17, 18.

Mandeville, M. de, i. 309.

Manitoba, ii. 10; fur-trade of, i. 37.

Manitoba, Lake, ii. 14.

Mann, Fort, i. 357.

Mantannes, the, see _Mandans, the_.

Maquas, the, see _Caughnawagas_.

Marblehead, ii. 68, 85.

March, Colonel John, at Falmouth, i. 45; attacked by the Indians, i. 45; attacks the Pequawkets, i. 50, 56; commander-in-chief of the expedition against Port Royal, i. 125; characteristics of, i. 126; ill-fitted for his position, i. 126; his disorderly camp, i. 127; his failure, i. 129.

Marcy, i. 357.

Marest, Father, the Jesuit, aversion of Cadillac for, i. 19;