By taking advantage of the eddies, on either side of the stream, it was not difficult for them, in their light canoes, to make the ascent.One man was within a few yards of it to watch the effect of the shots, as well as to light the candle, should it chance to go out, or to replace it student journal entries should the shot cut it across.Two nails were frequently needed before each man could get a shot.And as we lay together a fine field student journal entries was had for astronomical observations through the chinks of the logs.On awaking in the morning, I saw two women cooking breakfast in my bedroom, and three men seated over the fire watching the operation.On reaching the place, I was welcomed by a dozen tall, stout student journal entries men, who told me they were exercising for the purpose of enabling them to shoot in the night at the reflected light from the eyes of a deer, or wolf, by torch light.The Griffin, laden with wealth, set out on her return and was wrecked by the way with total loss.of France student journal entries to explore the Mississippi to its mouth.The boys were all taught to imitate the call of every bird and beast in the woods.At a distance which rendered it scarcely distinguishable, stood a burning candle, which in reality was only fifty yards student journal entries from the spot on which we all stood.More than one hundred and thirty years passed over these solitudes, when James Marquette, a French missionary among the Indians at Saint Marys, the outlet of Lake Superior, resolved to explore the Mississippi, of whose magnificence he had heard much from the lips of the Indians, who had occasionally extended their hunting tours to its banks.Eight years before La Salle's expedition, Father Marquette, the French missionary, visited this spot with a student journal entries party of Hurons, upon whom he prevailed to locate themselves.The skies were bright above them.He addressed them in the following words How beautiful is the sun, Frenchman, when thou comest to visit student journal entries us.