Note 14 — PREFACE

Jonathan Carver, one of the earliest American explorers of the Northwest, was born in 1732, and served in the French and Indian War, barely escaping from the massacre of Fort William Henry. In 1766, he went to Mackinac, and thence through Wisconsin and Minnesota, and later explored Lake Superior. His Travels were first published in London in 1778, and two years later he died there in destitute circumstances. For further details see Wisconsin Historical Collections, vi, pp. 220–237. Carver gives an account of Indian manners and customs; chapter 17, devoted to language, includes a Chippewa vocabulary.—Ed.