[574] Pages 231-257.
[575] He repeated this fac-simile later in his edition of the Relation of 1673-1679. The engraving of this map given in Douniol’s Mission du Canada has a small sketch of an Indian cabin on it which does not belong to it. Cf. Harrisse’s Notes sur la Nouvelle France, pp. 142, 610; Shea’s edition of Charlevoix’s New France, iii. 180; and Parkman’s La Salle, p. 451. There are other reproductions of this map in Blanchard’s History of the Northwest; Hurlbut’s Chicago Antiquities; and in the Annual Report of the United States Chief of Engineers, 1876, vol. iii. A sketch is given herewith. Kohl credits four maps, dated 1673, to Marquette, as given in the Collection in the State Department at Washington, of which use has also been made in the present essay.
[576] Again in 1861 in Douniol’s Mission du Canada, ii. 241, edited by Martin.
[577] See the note on the Jesuit Relations, sub annis 1673-1675.
[578] There are copies in Harvard College, Lenox, and Carter-Brown Libraries. Copies of Thevenot vary much in the making up. See O’Callaghan Catalogue, no. 2,245; Stevens, Bibliotheca Historica, no. 2,068; Brinley Catalogue, no. 4,522; Sparks Catalogue, no. 2,592. Some copies have the date 1682; and the Sunderland Catalogue, no. 12,409, shows one with “Paris, I. Moette, 1689,” pasted over a 1682 imprint. A distinction must be kept in mind between this octavo Recueil de voyages, and Thevenot’s folio Relations des divers voyages curieux. The Sobolewski Catalogue (nos. 4,112-4,113) compares Brunet’s collation.
[579] Of Thevenot’s text a defective translation was published in London in 1698, as a supplement to an English version of Hennepin. Later and better renderings are in the Historical Magazine, August, 1861, and in part ii. p. 277, etc., of French’s Historical Collections of Louisiana, accompanied by a fac-simile of a map by Delisle showing the routes of the early explorers. This section of Thevenot was reprinted (125 copies) in fac-simile, with the map, in Paris in 1845, for Obadiah Rich. There is a copy of this reprint in the Sumner collection in Harvard College Library, and in the Carter-Brown and Lenox libraries, and the latter library has devoted no. iii. of its Contributions to a Catalogue (1879) to the “Voyages of Thevenot.” The MSS. de la Bibliothèque impériale, viii. 2d part, p. 11, note 1, shows a notice of the life of Thevenot. Harrisse, Notes, p. 140, compares the claims of several manuscripts of this narrative of Marquette.
[580] Notes, no. 202.
[581] La Salle, p. 452. From this Parkman copy the annexed sketch, to which the title, “Mississippi Valley, 1672-1673,” is given, has been taken. Another copy is given in the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament, 1858, p. 1615, no. 16.
[582] Sparks Catalogue, p. 175. Shea (Mississippi Valley, p. lxxv) thinks that the routes of going and returning were inserted by an editor. This Thevenot-Marquette map is rare. Dufossé has variously priced copies of the Recueil with the map at 150, 180, and 200 francs. Leclerc (no. 566) priced one at 325 francs.
[583] The contemporary account of Marquette’s death is given in the Relation of that year, and in the “Récit de la mort du P. Marquette,” as published in the Mission du Canada. Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, iii. 182, note; but Charlevoix’ account varies, and Parkman says it is a traditionary one, and that traces of the tradition were not long since current (La Salle, p. 72). Cf. “Romance and Reality of the Death of Marquette, and the Recent Discovery of his Remains,” by Shea, in the Catholic World, xxvi. 267, and “Father Marquette’s Bones” in the Canadian Antiquarian, January, 1878. In 1877 some human bones were found on the supposed site of the mission chapel at St. Ignace. Of Marquette’s successors in the Illinois mission, see Shea’s Catholic Missions, App., and Wisconsin Historical Society’s Collections, iii. 110.