A TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. OF MEMOIRS, ETC. BY ROBERT CAVELIER DE LA SALLE AND THE CHEVALIER BY THOMAS FALCONER, Of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. LONDON: SAMUEL CLARKE, 13 PALLMALL EAST. 1844. PREFACE. WHEN at Paris, in 1843, I collected some materials to serve for an Account of the Discoveries of La Salle, and a friend was kind enough to give me copies of the documents I have translated, which had been obtained from the Archives of the Marine. In the course of the present year a Life of La Salle,' written by Mr Sparks, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been published; and this work renders any similar one needless. The documents I have translated-which I hope will hereafter be published in their original language-rendered an abstract of La Salle's journeys necessary, in order to explain their |