La Salle and the Discovery of the Great WestLittle, Brown, 1888 - 483 pagina's |
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West: France and England ..., Volume 6 Francis Parkman Volledige weergave - 1897 |
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West: France and England ..., Volume 6 Francis Parkman Volledige weergave - 1897 |
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Abbé Arkansas band bank Barre Beaujeu brother buffalo called camp Canada canoes Cavelier Cenis chief Clerc Colbert colony companions coureurs de bois crossed deserted discovery Douay Duhaut embarked enemies enterprise explore fait Father fire followed forest Fort Crèvecoeur Fort Frontenac Fort St France Franquelin French Frenchmen friar Frontenac Galinée governor Gulf of Mexico guns Hennepin Henri de Tonty Hiens hundred Huron Illinois Indians Iroquois Jesuits Joliet journey Joutel killed king La Salle La Salle's Lake Michigan land leagues length letter Lhut lodges Louis Margry Marquette Membré Mémoire Miamis Michillimackinac mission Mississippi Montreal Moranget mouth Niagara night paddled party passed Perrot prairie priests qu'il Quebec reached Relation des Découvertes river Rivière rock sail Salle Salle's savages says Seignelay sent shore Sieur Sioux soon Spaniards tion told Tonty Tonty's town tribes vessel village voyage warriors
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Pagina 54 - A torrent of yellow mud rushed furiously athwart the calm blue current of the Mississippi ; boiling and surging, and sweeping in its course logs, branches, and uprooted trees. They had reached the mouth of the Missouri, where that savage river, descending from its mad career through a vast unknown of barbarism, poured its turbid floods into the bosom of its gentler sister. Their light canoes whirled on the miry vortex like dry leaves on an angry brook.
Pagina 280 - In the name of the most high, mighty, invincible, and victorious Prince, Louis the Great, by the Grace of God King of France and of Navarre, Fourteenth of that name...
Pagina 117 - And yet, as we shall see, this reverend father was the most impudent of liars; and the narrative of which he speaks is a rare monument of brazen mendacity. Hennepin, however, had seen and dared much : for among his many failings fear had no part; and, where his vanity or his spite was not involved, he often told the truth.
Pagina 37 - In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name, Most Christian King of France and of Navarre...
Pagina 281 - Natches, and Koroas. This alleged consent is, of course, mere farce. If there could be any doubt as to the meaning of the words of La Salle, as recorded in the...
Pagina 106 - Louis, by the grace of God King of France and Navarre, to our dear and well-beloved Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, greeting. We have received with favor the very humble petition made us in your name, to permit you to labor at the discovery of the western parts of New France ; and we have the more willingly entertained this proposal, since we have nothing more at heart than the exploration of this country, through which, to all appearance...
Pagina 38 - Hoi" and the yelps of the astonished Indians mingled with the din. What now remains of the sovereignty thus pompously proclaimed? Now and then, the accents of France on the lips of some straggling boatman or vagabond half-breed ; — this, and nothing more. When the uproar was over, Father Allouez addressed the Indians in a solemn harangue ; and these were his words : " It is a good work, my brothers, an important work, a great work, that brings us together in council to-day. Look up at 1 Procb Verbal...
Pagina 75 - Children! Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. I am glad to see you here, where I have had a fire lighted for you to smoke by, and for me to talk to you. You have done well, my children, to obey the command of your Father. Take courage: you will hear his word, which is full of peace and tenderness. For do not think that I have come for war. My mind is full of peace, and she walks by my side. Courage, then, children, and take rest.
Pagina 64 - With perfect cheerfulness and composure, he gave directions for his burial, asked their forgiveness for the trouble he had caused them, administered to them the sacrament of penitence, and thanked God that he was permitted to die in the wilderness, a missionary of the Faith and a member of the Jesuit brotherhood. At night, seeing that they were fatigued, he told them to take rest, saying that he would call them when he felt his time approaching. Two or three hours after, they heard a feeble voice,...
Pagina 147 - They soon reached a spot where the oozy, saturated soil quaked beneath their tread. All around were clumps of alder-bushes, tufts of rank grass, and pools of glistening water. In the midst, a dark and lazy current, which a tall man might bestride, crept twisting like a snake among the weeds and rushes. Here were the sources of the Kankakee, one of the heads of the...