... Jean Chouart canoedfarther up to the rendezvous of the Cree and Assiniboine Indians. The Indians were overjoyed to meet theirtrader friend of long past years. The white man's coming meant ... Superior,where they met another tribe of Indians the Stone Boilers, or Assiniboines who also told them of the greatsalt water, or Sea of the North. In the spring of 1662, with some Crees of the hinterland, ... the Bay; andit appears that, during the next three years, Radisson spent the winters in London advising the Company, and the summers on the Bay, cruising and trading on the west coast. In 1672...