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Sorry, we couldn't find anything matching "On May 17, 1673, Marquette and Jolliet departed from the mission at St. Ignace (Michilimackinac) Michigan. From the Wisconsin River they were able to reach the Mississippi River on June 17, “with a joy I cannot express,” wrote Father Marquette in his diary. On their trip Marquette and Jolliet visited Indian villages and saw a painting of the legendary Piasa Bird on the bluffs near present-day Alton. They went as far south as the Arkansas River and then turned back, knowing the river would lead to the Gulf of Mexico and not to the west as they had hoped. On their return trip they stopped on the Illinois River near present-day Utica and visited a village of the Kaskaskia Indians, part of the Illinois Confederacy. Marquette promised to return and establish a mission there. Marquette became ill on the trip and stayed behind near Green Bay, while Jolliet continued on to New France (Canada).".