OF

ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE

AND

PATRICK HENRY.

BOSTON:

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN.

1844.

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1844, by

CHARLES C. LITTLE AND JAMES BROWN,

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE

BOSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

CONTENTS.

LIFE OF ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE.

BY JARED SPARKS.

Preface.

CHAPTER I.

First Discovery of the Mississippi.

Cavelier de la Salle.

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- Passes eight Years in

Canada. Obtains Letters Patent from the

King. Builds Fort Frontenac. Obtains

additional Letters Patent for making new

Discoveries..

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CHAPTER II.

Recollect Missionaries in Canada. - La Salle

prepares for his Voyage of Discovery.

Builds a Vessel of sixty Tons above the Falls

of Niagara. Sails through the Lakes to

Mackinac.

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CHAPTER III.

Sails to an Island at the Entrance of Green Bay.

- Proceeds on his Voyage in Canoes along the

Western Shore of Lake Michigan.— Disasters

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of the Voyage.Meets a Party of Indians,

who threaten Hostilities. Arrives at the

Miamis River.

CHAPTER IV.

Builds a Fort.

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Joined by the Chevalier de

Tonty. Loss of the Griffin. The Sieur de

la Salle and the whole Party go down the

Kankakee River to the Illinois. Arrive at a

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deserted Indian Village. - Descend the River

to Lake Peoria. Land at a large Settlement

of Illinois Indians at the South End of the

Lake.

CHAPTER V.

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Fort Crèvecœur built near Lake Peoria. Inter-

course with the Indians.

the Mississippi. - La

to Fort Frontenac.

Iroquois War.

·Hennepin ascends

Salle returns by Land

Some of the Men desert.

Tonty and Father Ze-

nobe endeavor to mediate between the Iroquois

and Illinois.

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CHAPTER VI.

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Tonty escapes with his Party to Green Bay.

Father Gabriel murdered by the Savages.-

La Salle arrives at Fort Frontenac. State

of his Affairs. Prepares for another Expe-

dition. Returns to the Illinois Country, and

spends the Winter there. Meets Tonty and

his Party at Mackinac.

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CHAPTER VII.

Hennepin's Voyage up the Mississippi. His

pretended Discovery of the Mouth of that

River. Grounds for disbelieving his Account.

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·Sources whence he drew his Materials.

CHAPTER VIII.

La Salle begins his Voyage down the Missis-

sippi. - Intercourse with various Indian Na-

tions on the Banks of the River. Arrives

at its Mouth, and takes Possession of the

Country. Returns to the Illinois, and thence

to France.

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CHAPTER IX.

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La Salle obtains a Commission to settle a Colony

in Louisiana. Sails with four Vessels to St.

Domingo, and thence to the Gulf of Mexico.

Discord between him and the Commander of

the Squadron.

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CHAPTER X.

The Vessels make the Land at the Westward

of the Mississippi.

The Colonists go ashore

at the Bay of St. Bernard, and build a

La Salle explores the Bay with the

Hope of finding one of the Mouths of the

Mississippi.

Fort.