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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
supplication. At the end of the half-hour, they went to seek him, and he was no more. The good missionary, discoverer of a world, had fallen asleep on the margin of the stream that bears his name. Near its mouth, the canoemen dug his grave in the sand. Ever after, the Chap. XX.} forest rangers, if in danger on Lake Michigan, would invoke his name. The people of the west will build his monument. At the death of Marquette, there dwelt at the outlet of Lake Ontario, Robert Cavalier de la Salle. Of a good family, he had renounced his inheritance by entering the seminary of the Jesuits. After profiting by the discipline of their schools, and obtaining their praise for purity and diligence, he had taken his discharge from the fraternity; and, with no companions but poverty and a boundless spirit of enterprise, about the year 1667, when the attention of all France was directed towards Canada, the young adventurer embarked for fame and fortune in New France. Established, at first
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
n of St. Domingo returned, and the frigates anchored near the groups of the Chandeleur, while D'Iberville with his people erected huts on Ship Island, and made the discovery of the River Pascagoula and the tribes of Biloxi. The next day, a party of Bayagoulas, from the Mississippi, passed by: they were warriors returning from an inroad into the land of the Indians of Mobile. In two barges, D'Iberville and his brother Bienville, Feb. 27. with a Franciscan, who had been a companion to La Salle, and with forty-eight men, set forth to seek the Chap XXI.} Mississippi. Floating trees, and the turbid aspect of 1699 the waters, guided to its mouth. On the second day in March, they entered the mighty river, and ascended to the village of the Bayagoulas—a tribe which then dwelt on its western bank, just below the River Iherville, worshipping, it was said, an opossum for their manitou, and preserving in their temple an undying fire. There they found a letter from Tonti to La Salle, wr
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., S. (search)
S. Sagadahock settled, I. 268. Garrison in, II. 408. St. Augustine founded, I. 69. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, III. 219. St. Lawrence discovered, I. 20. St. Mary, central Jesuit station, III. 125 Salem, I. 339. Witchcraft in, III. 84. Salle, La, III. 162. Descends the Mississippi, 168. Leads a colony to Louisiana, 169. In Texas, 170. Murdered, 173. Saltonstall, Richard, denounces the slave trade, I. 174. Samoset, 316. Savannah, III. 420. Schenectady destroyed, III. 182. Senecas, II. 417. Separatists, 288. Shaftesbury, Lord, sketch of, II. 139 Minister, 436. Shawnees, III. 240. Silleri, II. 127. Sioux, III. 131. Slavery, history of, I. 159. In the middle ages, 161. Origin of negro slavery, 165. In Spain and Portugal, 166. Of Indians, 167. In the West Indies, 169. Opinion on, 171. In Massachusetts, 174. In Virginia, 176. In South Carolina, II. 171. In New Netherlands, 303. In New Jersey, 317. In Pennsylvania, 405.