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.
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.
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.