i. 105;

his opposition to Governor Dudley, i. 106, 107.

Mather, Increase, i. 105.

Matinicus, i. 122; ii. 65.

Maumee River, the, ii. 57.

Maurault, Abbé, on the Gill family, i. 92, 93.

Maurepas, Count de, 392 memorial of Cadillac presented to, i. 23; ii. 200, 237.

Maurepas, Fort, on the Winnipeg, ii. 14.

Maurepas Gate, at Louisbourg, ii. 149, 150, 296.

Maurepas, Lake, i. 302.

Maximilian, Prince, of Wied, among the Mandans, i. 345; ii. 17, 18.

McKenney, Mrs., killed by the Indians, ii. 216.

M’Donald, Captain, ii. 126.

Medfield, village of, i. 228.

Medford, ii. 99.

“Medicine lodge,” the, ii. 21.

“Medicine men,” the Indian, the natural enemies of the missionary, i. 219.

“Medicines,” Indian, i. 79, 216.

Medoctec, Abenaki mission of, i. 236.

Memeramcook, ii. 203.

Memphremagog, Lake, ii. 221.

Menadou, ii. 288.

Ménard, Jean Louis, marriage of, i. 89.

Menominies, the, on Fox River, i. 275; at Detroit, i. 283; i. 340.

Mercier, ii. 190.

Mer de l’Ouest, the, see _Pacific Ocean_.

Meriel, Father, forces Samuel Williams to turn Catholic, i. 83; i. 90.

“Mermaid,” the, ii. 84, 93, 123.

Merrimac River, the, i. 37, 97, 259.

Merry-meeting Bay, i. 239.

Meserve, Lieutenant-Colonel, at Louisbourg, ii. 105.

Mesilac, Sieur, ii. 291.

Messager, the Jesuit, joins La Vérendrye in his search for the Pacific, ii. 12.

Mexico, i. 298; ii. 46.

Mexico, city of, i. 355.

Mexico, the Gulf of, i. 135, 299; Spain bent on making good her claim to, i. 301; i. 319, 324.

Miamis, the, raided by the Saginaws, i. 335.

Michigan, Lake, i. 341; ii. 57.

Michilimackinac, the Jesuit mission of, i. 17; La Mothe-Cadillac at, i. 17; the centre of the western fur-trade, i. 17; the favorite haunt of the _coureurs de bois_, i. 17; curious survival of Huron-Iroquois customs at, i. 18; its rivalry with Detroit, i. 23; i. 332, 338, 339; ii. 6; important position of, ii. 57.

Micmac Indians, the, i. 101, 188; fiercely hostile to the English, i. 191; the massacre, i. 191;