Land claim- if the explorers navigated the headwaters of a river and placed a claim stone or plaque at the source of a river they could claim all the land associated with that watershed. The top map (below)in the footer picture is - black line from KRS to the very source of the Little Minnesota River. Could this what they believed to be the source of the Mississippi River?
http://www.startribune.com/why-lake-itasca-may-not-be-the-headwaters-of-the-mississippi-river/387864562/
Note; the Green line in this picture (both Steamer maps below) are the Hudson Bay/Gulf of Mexico Continental Divide- so all the water from the source of the Little Minnesota River drains to the Gulf of Mexico-all the water North of this line drains to the Hudson Bay.
Note:The latitude of both the source of the Little Minnesota River and the KRS are the same!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_of_the_North
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Minnesota_River
Timetable for the Solstices and Equinoxes at the KRS site in 1362
see also;
KRS_ Celestial Alignment
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