Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana, Volume 1"This narrative is comprised of a series of twenty-one letters to the Marquis de L'Estrade describing Bossu's life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. His ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in present-day Illinois, to Mobile, and along the Mississippi. His visit to New Orleans took place only thirty years after its founding, and he was able to gather considerable information from the memories of locals. ... Almost all of the second volume of this edition is given over to the catalogue of plants, making it an important piece of American natural history." -- William Reese Company catalog 347 "The Streeter Sale Revisited Fifty Years Later." |
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Page 37 - Heaven. Then they threw themfelves on the ground ; and their women brought their children, and taught them to keep in a devout attitude. About their harveft-time, which happened in July, the Natches celebrated a great feaft. They began with blacking their...
Page 42 - ... spirits; if I were to yield to your tears I would injure my love and fail in my duty. I have done enough for you by bearing you next to my heart, and by suckling you with my breasts. You that are descended of his blood and fed by my milk, ought you to shed tears?
Page 40 - He did not stay to have this order repeated — he disappeared like lightning. Three old women, two of whom were his relations, offered to pay his debt. Their age and their infirmities had disgusted them with life — none of them had been able to walk for a great while.
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