The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 254 of 330
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JOURNEYS OF
He returned some time after and undertook
a second, in which he lost his life by the
cruelty of his men, some of whom, remaining
faithful, continued their route and
reached France, among the rest Father Anastasius
Douay. Although the detail of his
remarks was lost in his many wrecks, the
following is an abridgment of what he could
gather from them, with which, perhaps, the
reader will be better pleased than if I gave
it in my own style.
CHAPTER X.
NARRATIVE OF LA SALLE'S ATTEMPT TO ASCEND
THE MISSISSIPPI IN 1687, BY
FATHER ANASTASIUS DOUAY, RECOLLECT.1
[PART I. TO THE DEATH OF LA SALLE.]
THE Sieur de la Salle, seeing no other
resource for his affairs but to go by land
to the Ilinois, to be able to give in France
1Of Father Anastasius Douay we know little;
Hennepin makes him a native of Quesnoy, in
Hainault. He had never been in America before,
but after being connected with La Salle's expedition
from 1684 to I688, he reached France, as we
shall see, in safety. He was, says Hennepin, vicar
of the Recollects of Cambray in I697. Certain
it is that he subsequently revisited America in
i699 with Iberville, but we can trace him no fur222
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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/m1/254/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.