Materials concerning La Salle's attempt in 1684 to establish a colony in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi, including a travel report by Jean Cavelier, and two letters to the duque de Jovenazo from Baron de Lahontan in Lisbon, 1699-1700.

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Materials concerning La Salle's attempt in 1684 to establish a colony in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi, including a travel report by Jean Cavelier, and two letters to the duque de Jovenazo from Baron de Lahontan in Lisbon, 1699-1700.

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Photostatic copy, probably from around 1924, of an account by Jean Cavelier, brother of Robert Cavelier de La Salle, of the disastrous expedition to establish a French colony in Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi River between 1684 and 1688, and two related letters, dated Sept. 1 and Sept. 7, 1699, to the duque de Jovenazo from the baron de Lahontan in Lisbon.

3 items ([23] leaves, bound) ; 25 cm.

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