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Title: Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage 1684-7
Contributor: Henry Reed Stiles Appleton P. C. Griffin
Release Date: April 19, 2021 [eBook #65116]
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOUTEL'S JOURNAL OF LA SALLE'S LAST VOYAGE 1684-7
***JOUTEL’S JOURNAL OF LA SALLE’S LAST VOYAGE.
Edition limited to five hundred copies printed from type of which this is No.____
[Illustration: GUDEBROD’S STATUE OF LA SALLE
AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904.]
Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s Last Voyage 1684–7
WITH A FRONTISPIECE OF GUDEBROD’S STATUE OF LA SALLE AND THE MAP OF THE ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION, PARIS 1713, IN FACSIMILE.
NEW EDITION WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, ANNOTATIONS AND INDEX BY _HENRY REED STILES, A. M., M. D._
TO WHICH IS ADDED A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY _APPLETON P. C. GRIFFIN_, OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1906 BY JOSEPH McDONOUGH, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
THE INDEFATIGABLE HISTORIAN OF THE MISSIONS, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA, AND A MAN OF MODEST, PIOUS AND BLAMELESS LIFE THIS, THE FINAL VOLUME OF A SERIES PROJECTED BY HIMSELF, OVER FORTY YEARS AGO, IS SINCERELY DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR.
This volume is the concluding one of a series projected by the late JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL. D., on the “Discovery and Explorations of the Mississippi Valley.” The initial volume, issued in 1852, comprises the Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin and Anastase Douay. The second, issued in 1861, contains those of Cavelier, St. Cosme, Le Seuer, Gravier and Guignas.