Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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onization. His remarkable qualities mustalways command the admiration and his sadfate elicit the sympathy of all generoushearts. While La Salle was vainly striving to ac-complish some good result with the Texascolony, his friend and lieutenant, Tonti, inobedience to his instructions, started fromthe Illinois and descended the Mississippialmost to its mouth, hoping to meet him.At length, despairing of seeing him, Tontiengraved a cross and the arms of Franceupon a tree on the banks of the river, andreturned to the Illinois. In 1699, twelve years after the death of LaSalle, another and this time a successful effortwas made to secure Louisiana to France.Lemoine dlbberville, a native of Canada anda man of ability and courage, resolved tc>plant a colony near the mouth of the Missis-sippi. With four vessels and two hundredemigrants, some of whom were women andchildren, he sailed from Canada for the mouthof the Mississippi. He landed at the mouthof the river Pascagoula, and with two barges
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MURDER OF LA SALLE. 26:^ 264 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. manned by forty-eight men searched thecoast for the mouth of the Mississippi. Hefound it and ascended as high as the mouthof the Red River. Here he was met by theIndians, who, to his astonishment, gave hima letter which had been placed in their charge•fourteen years before. It was from Tonti,and was addressed to La Salle. He hadgiven it to the Indians, and had chargedthem to deliver it to the first Frenchmanthey met. Shiftless Colonists. DTbberville returned to the gulf byway of Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain,which he named after two of the ministersof Louis XIV. Deeming the shores of theMississippi too marshy for colonization,DTbbevville formed a settlement at Biloxi, atthe mouth of the Pascagoula, within the limitsof the present state of Mississippi, and soonafterwards sailed for France to obtain rein-forcements and supplies, leaving one of hisbrothers, Sauville by name, as governor, andihe other, Bienville, to explore the Miss

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