Historical journal; or, Narrative of the expeditions made by order of His Majesty Louis XIV, king of France, to colonize Louisiana, under the command of M. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, governor general; including an account of his explorations of the Colbert or Mississippi River, from its mouth to the Natchez nation; of the physical features of the country; and of the manners and customs of the numerous Indian tribes he visited. Tr., and printed for the first time, from a copy of the original manuscript deposited in the office of the "Ministáere de la marine et des colonies," Paris.

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Historical journal; or, Narrative of the expeditions made by order of His Majesty Louis XIV, king of France, to colonize Louisiana, under the command of M. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, governor general; including an account of his explorations of the Colbert or Mississippi River, from its mouth to the Natchez nation; of the physical features of the country; and of the manners and customs of the numerous Indian tribes he visited. Tr., and printed for the first time, from a copy of the original manuscript deposited in the office of the "Ministère de la marine et des colonies," Paris.

Le Moyne d'Iberville, Pierre, 1661-1706.

OTHER TITLES
Voyage d'Iberville. English

Historical journal

Narrative of the expeditions made by order of His Majesty Louis XIV, king of France, to colonize Louisiana

CREATED/PUBLISHED
New York, 1875.

NOTES
Also published in Literary and historical society of Quebec, Manuscripts relating to the early history of Canada, 3d ser., no. 4, under title: Voyage d'Iberville. Journal du voyage fait par deux frégates du roi, La Badine ... et Le Marin; and in Margry's Découvertes et établissements des Français, pt. 4, p. 213-- under title: Journal du voyage fait a l'embouchure de la rivière du Mississippi par deux frégates du roy, La Badine ... et Le Marin.

Appended (p. [122]) Memoire of the taking possession of the country on the Upper Mississippi ... 8th May, 1689.

SUBJECTS
Le Moyne d'Iberville, Pierre,--1661-1706.
Louisiana--Discovery and exploration.
Mississippi River Valley--Discovery and exploration.

MEDIUM
p. [29]-121, 26 cm.

CALL NUMBER
F366 .F89

PART OF
French, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1799-1877, ed. Historical collections of Louisiana and Florida, 2d ser. p. [29]-121

DIGITAL ID
gcfr 0018_0047 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gcfr.0018_0047

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