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.________
GUDEBROD’S STATUE OF LA SALLE AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904.
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.
ALBANY, N. Y. JOSEPH McDONOUGH 1906
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1906 By JOSEPH McDONOUGH, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL. D., 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.
The present volume, giving Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s third and last voyage, is reprinted from the first English translation of 1714, of the original French edition of 1713.
A facsimile reprint of the above English edition was issued (privately) by the Caxton Club of Chicago, in 1896, in an edition of 203 copies, and enriched by textual notes by Prof. Melville B. Anderson, now of Menlo Park, California,—the result of his careful collation of the English with the French original. These notes, by the special permission of Mr. Anderson, have been incorporated in the present volume and indicated by his initials.