Never were mutiny, conspiracy and assassination more signally and justly followed by retribution than in the fate of these miscreants who had murdered La Salle—as graphically portrayed by Parkman (La Salle & the Discovery of the Great West, ii, pp. 212–216. Champlain edition.) Exiled, by their own deeds, from Canada; in fear of their Spanish neighbors, whose dominion they had invaded, they were finally overwhelmed by an Indian attack, many of them butchered and the fort laid waste. Compulsory domestication among their savage captors was the fate of the rest; and when, in 1689 the Spanish general Alonzo de Leon visited the ruined fort of St. Louis in Texas, they were handed over to him, and expiated their sins in the naval service or prisons of Spain.
[126] The eldest son of Louis XIV, who had died a year or two before the publication of the Fr. original of this Journal. C. C. ed.
[127] Fr. “overture au droit de l’œil”—opening opposite the eye.
[128] Fr. “du gros mil”—coarse millet.
[129] Bracketed words not in the French original.
[130] Reprinted, Albany, 1903, edition of five hundred copies.
[131] Reprinted, Albany, 1902, five hundred copies.
[132] New edition, Albany, 1903.
Transcriber’s Notes:
- Blank pages have been removed.
- Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected, otherwise archaic or inconsistent spelling was left as-is.