CHAPTER VIII. 1678. PARTY STRIFE.
La Salle and his Reporter.—Jesuit Ascendancy.—The Missions and the
Fur-Trade.—Female Inquisitors.—Plots against La Salle.—His
Brother the Priest.—Intrigues of the Jesuits.—La Salle poisoned.—
He exculpates the Jesuits.—Renewed Intrigues.