An account of Monsieur de La Salle's last expedition and discoveries in North America.
Subtitle: Presented to the French king, and published by the Chevalier Tonti, governour of Fort St. Louis, in the province of the Illinois.
By: Made English from the Paris original. Also the adventures of the Sieur de Montauban, captain of the French buccaneers on the coast of Guinea, in the year 1695.
Contributors: Tonti, Henri de, d. 1704, supposed author.
Series: Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 149, no. 1598.
Publisher: Printed for J. Tanson at the Judge's Head, and S. Buckley at the Dolphin in Fleet-street, and R. Knaplock, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's church-yard.
Published: 1698
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687; New France -- Discovery and exploration
Work titles: Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale.
Notes: French original published in 1697, with title: Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale de M. de La Sale ...  The authorship of the work was denied by Tonti, although it is apparently based on a narrative written by him. cf. Charlevoix, Histoire ... de la Nouvelle France, t. 2, 1744, p. 260; Harrisse, Notes pour servir à l'histoire ... de la Nouvelle-France, 1872, p. 169-171; and Margry, Relations et mémoires inédits, 1867, p. 1-36.

"A relation of a voyage made by the Sieur de Montauban ... " has special t.-p. and separate paging.

References: Eberstadt no. III-1186.

References: Howes, U.S.IANA, no.T.294.

Microfilm. New Haven, Conn., Research Publications, 1975. 1 reel. 35 mm. (Western Americana, Reel 149, no. 1598)

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