 Further complicating matters, there is credible evidence the French Jesuit missionary Paul Ragueneau visited the falls some 35 years before Hennepin's visit while working among the Huron First Nation in Canada.Jean de Brébeuf also may have visited the falls, while spending time with the Neutral Nation.In 1762, Captain Thomas Davies, a British Army officer and artist, surveyed the area and painted the watercolor, "An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara", the first eyewitness painting of the falls.