The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 137 of 330
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LA SALLE
mander of Fort Crevecceur, with ammunitions
and provisions and peltries to pay the
workmen as agreed, and merchandise to
lands, and that he was a cousin of Father Christian
le Clercq, who published his journals in the
"Etablissement de la Foi." It was probably on
entering the Recollect convent in Artois, where
he was the first novice in the new province of
St. Anthony, that he assumed the name of Zenobius.
With his cousin, Le Clercq, he was the
first sent by that province to Canada, where he
arrived in 1675, from which time till that of his
departure for Frontenac, in September I678, he
was probably employed at the convent of Quebec,
as his name does not appear in, any of the neighboring
parish registers examined to obtain his
autograph. From Fort Frontenac he accompanied
La Salle to Niagara, Mackinaw, and at last to
Fort Cravecceur, in Illinois. Here he was left by
that commander with Tonty and Father Gabriel
de la Rebourde, with whom, on the inroad of the
Iroquois and flight of the Illinois, he endeavored
to reach Green Bay. Father Gabriel perished
on the way by the hand of the Kikapoos; the survivors
were hospitably received by the Jesuits at
Green Bay, where they wintered, and in the spring
proceeded to Mackinaw with Father Enjalran.
Here La Salle soon joined them, and MembrC,
after a voyage to Fort Frontenac, and probably
to Montreal, with that commander in the spring
of I68I, descended the Mississippi with him to
the gulf, and on their return proceeded, at his
request, to France, in 1682, to lay before the government
the result of the expedition. He left a
journal of his voyage at Quebec; but, as he declined
communicating it to the new governor, De
la Barre, the latter, in his report to the home government,
throws imputations on any account of
the missionary, which must, however, be ascribed
only to bias and dissatisfaction. After fulfilling
his mission at court Father Membre became warden
of the Recollects at Bapaume, and remained
so till he was appointed, at La Salle's request,
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/137/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.