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Hello and welcome to the Explorers Podcast.

Today we have the second and final episode in our series on French Explorers,

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliad.

Last time the two men had reached the big river, the Mississippi, in the summer of 1673.

It was a triumph, but now they had to follow the river, ideally to its outlet and then return home.

A few notes for today.

First, there is a map on our website, ExplorersPodcast.com, of our Explorers Root.

So check that out if you want to understand our journey a little better.

Second, I want to take a moment to give you some more information about the sources for this podcast

as I neglected some stuff on this topic in our first episode.

Regarding this, our primary source about this expedition is from Father Jacques Marquette.

The man kept a journal, and from that we get a lot of the information we use in this podcast.

Louis Joliad also kept a journal and made detailed maps.

However, Joliad's documentation would be lost on the returned journey.

The loss of his maps and charts was especially disappointing as Joliad was an expert at such things.

Now, Joliad would recount the expedition to another Jesuit priest from memory, but many of the details were lost.

Also, and this is really important, when Marquette's journal was ultimately put together,

some of the things included in it were likely from Joliad's verbal report.

Anyhow, I will talk more about this situation at the end of today's show.

Third item.

Last time, I referred to Mackinac Island in the Mackinac straight as Mackinac.

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