Book/Printed Material Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating to their discovery and settlement, with numerous historical and biographical notes.
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Image 1 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS or Louisiana anti iSrloriba INCLUDING TRANSLATIONS OF ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO THEIR DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT WITH NUMEROUS HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES By B F FRENCH it MEMBER Or THE LOUISIANA… -
Image 2 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 7Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1874 by B F FRENCH in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington Langs Little à Co PRINTERS ELBCTROTYPER8 AND STEREOTYPEE… -
Image 3 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … TO LIEUTENANT G W COSTER OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY THIS VOLUME IS AS A TOKEN OF ESTEEM AND FRIENDSHIP AND ADMIRATION OF HIS PROFESSIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC ATTAINMENTS BY B F FRENCH… -
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Image 5 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 3ntïo5JuctionHE spirit of adventure which manifested itself in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was one of the clearest evidences of an approach ing moral and political regeneration It indicated the… -
Image 6 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … vi INTRODUCTION It was the fifteenth which produced Columbus but the sixteenth and seventeenth carried out his noble conceptions and filled the ocean with adventurers and explorers of dis tant lands Thé… -
Image 7 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … vii from Hispaniola to explore the coast and capture the na tives In a few days he made land in the Bay of St Helena South Carolina and landed on the banks… -
Image 8 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … INTRODUCTION viii in search of gold He finally reached the Indian town of Aute on the Bay of St Marks San Marco de Apalache where he desperately put to sea in a… -
Image 9 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … IN TROD UCTION IX declared that the enterprise was undertaken for God alone He traversed with his army great portions of Georgia South Carolina Alabama Tennessee and Mississippi and at length in… -
Image 10 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … INTRODUCTIONX on the one side all the waters of the Alleghanies and on the other all those of the Rocky Mountains It stands there like a gigantic production of nature with its… -
Image 11 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … xi two months wasted in fruitless efforts to conciliate the na tives when all but Beteta had fallen martyrs to the cause of Christianity the vessel returned to Vera Cruz Some years… -
Image 12 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … XU INTRODUCTION the French soon after attempted to establish a colony of French Protestants Huguenots on the eastern coast In the year 1562 a cloud of black and deadly portent was thick… -
Image 13 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … Xlll iflg twentysix persons there he returned to France The narrative and particulars of this voyage which was written in French by Ribault on his return to France in 1562 is a… -
Image 14 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … XIV to turn his attention to the colonizing of Florida he se lected Don Pedro de Melendez Aviles to conduct the enter prise and to have the natives Christianized He was vested… -
Image 15 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … INTRODUCTION XVIn a few days after the fate of Ribaults fleet was known as being shipwrecked with all on board near Cape Cana veral Corrientes Melendez went in search of them at… -
Image 16 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … INTRODUCTIONXVI tion against the Spaniards in 15678 to revenge the mas sacre of the French colony also a translation of the narra tive of Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales chaplain of the… -
Image 17 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … IN TROD UCTION XVll nando DEscalante Fontaneda who boasts that he could speak four Indian languages and who afterwards accompa nied the expedition of the Adelantado Melendez de Aviles to Florida The… -
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Image 19 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … JtUmotïOF ROBERT CAVALIER SIEUR DE LA SALLE ADDRESSED TO Monseigneur de Seignelay ON THE DISCOVERIES MADE BY HIM BY ORDER OF HIS MAJESTY LOUIS XIV KING OF FRANCETRANSLATED PROM A COPY OP… -
Image 20 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 2 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1678 In order to execute this commission he abandoned all his own pursuits which did not relate to it He did not omit anything necessary for success Notwithstanding… -
Image 21 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 3 industry in the performance of the undertaking he made five voyages under extraordinary hardships extending over five thousand leagues most commonly on foot through snow and water… -
Image 22 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 4 historical collections of 1678 He has traversed more than six hundred leagues of un known country among many barbarian and cannibal nations Anthropophages against whom he was obliged to fight almost… -
Image 23 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 5 this voyage and who is at this time guardian of Bapâume by the testimony of three persons who accompanied him and whom he has brought with him… -
Image 24 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 6 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1678 never having been there But he hopes to remove all these prejudices by carrying into execution the design which he entertains under the favor of Monseigneur of… -
Image 25 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 7 produce no profit to France he replies that if he proposed it as a thing to be done and on that account sought for as sistance to… -
Image 26 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1678 render us certain of success whenever it shall please the King to command it The provinces which may be seized are very rich in silver mines Texas… -
Image 27 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 9 pense the country producing a greater part of them We could even build there as many ships as we should desire the materials for building and rigging… -
Image 28 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 10 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1678 from the sea through the mouth of the river the remainder of the coast being impenetrable inland for more than twenty leagues in consequence of woods swamps… -
Image 29 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA II navigable river the Sabloniere Red River of Louisiana which is one of the branches of the Colbert Mississippi is only separated by a forest of three to… -
Image 30 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 12 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1678 4 of New France who are obliged to seek subsistence in the woods under great fatigues in hunting for peltries which are their principal resource These vagrant… -
Image 31 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 13 in the places nearest to the savages who now bring their furs to Montreal they will make constant inroads into the countries of the latter which could… -
Image 32 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 14 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1678 the Dutch have published in their newspapers upwards of a year ago Nothing more is required than to maintain the possession taken by the Sieur de la… -
Image 33 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 1678 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 15 has been dealt with respecting the constancy of the Indians They know too well how important it is to them to live on good terms with us… -
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Image 35 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … Harrfltibe OP TUB EXPEDITION OF M CAVALIER DE LA SALLE TO EXPLORE THE MISSISSIPPI COLBERT RIVER AND TAKE POSSESSION OF LOUISIANA UNDER THE ORDERS AND LETTERS PATENT OF LOUIS XIV KING OF… -
Image 36 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … i8 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1682 j n g Know that having been requested by the said Sieur de la Salle to deliver to him an act signed by us and the witnesses… -
Image 37 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … i682 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 19 route to the River Colbert Mississippi sixty leagues or thereabouts from Pimiteoui and ninety leagues or there abouts from Pimiteoui Peoria to the village of the Illinois… -
Image 38 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 20 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1682 order to observe these savages he marched through the woods during two days but without finding them because they had all been frightened by the guns which… -
Image 39 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … i682 LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA 21 news to the village whence the elders would come and join them four days journey below that place The said Sieur de la Salle returned to the… -
Image 40 of Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating … 22 HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF 1682 we passed the villages of Tourika Tonicas Yasou Yazoo and Koroas but as they did not border on the river and were hostile to the Akansas and…
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Title
- Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida : including translations of original manuscripts relating to their discovery and settlement, with numerous historical and biographical notes.
Names
- French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877, ed.
Created / Published
- New York : A. Mason, 1875.
Contents
- Memoir of Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle, addressed to Monseigneur de Seignelay.--Narrative of the expedition of M. Cavalier de La Salle to explore the (Mississippi) Colbert River [written by Jacques de La Metairie]--Historical journal ... of M. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville.--Memoire sent by the king to M. de Denonville ... explanatory of the French possessions in North America.--Introduction to the colonial history of Florida. [Columbus' letter to Santangel, on his arrival from his first voyage]--Proclamation of Pamfilo de Narvaez. To the inhabitants of the countries and provinces from Rio de Palmas to the Cape of Florida, 1527.--Narrative of the first voyage of Jean de Ribault.--Memoir of the ... voyage of the fleet commanded by ... Pedro Menendez de Aviles, which sailed from Cadiz ... June 28th ... 1565. By Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales.--Memoir of Hernando d'Escalante Fontanedo, on the country and ancient Indian tribes of Florida.--La reprinse de la Floride, par le cappitaine Gourzue.--Memoria de Joan de La Vandera.
Headings
- - Florida--History--Sources
- - Louisiana--History--Sources
- - Mississippi River Valley--History--To 1803--Sources
- - America--Discovery and exploration
Notes
- - Preceded by the editor's Historical collections of Louisiana, 1846-52, 4 v., Historical memoirs of Louisiana, 1853, 1 v., and his Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida, new ser., 1869, 1 v.
- - LAC snh 2019-07-10 update (2 card)
Medium
- xvii, 300 p. ; 26 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F366 .F89
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 02002984
Online Format
- image
- online text