The first white man known to have visited the site was Father Hennepin in 1680; later in the same year the trader Du Lhut (or Duluth) was here.
In 1884 New Guinea was absolutely wild, not a single white man living on what is now the German part.
He was the third white man to descend, and the second to descend successfully, the Lachine Rapids.
Thousands of these lakes have been mapped more or less carefully, and every new survey brings to light small lakes hitherto unknown to the white man.
These people showed, to their own ruin, a reckless liking for the brandy of the white man.
